My impression is that the answer is yes, that it purports to dispense the glue on-the-fly in some kind of dynamic way rather than being some kind of new model-amalgam.
See also contemporaneous reaction at:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48624782 (6 days ago, 244 points, 133 comments)
Also sakana has misrepresented their findings previously i think to remember [1]
1.https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1iwbwgu/sakana...