What a lot of use on here are salivating for is the ability to run these on prosumer hardware at home. So we tend to jump to the conclusion that "standard" means "consumer-grade" because that's what we want to see.
Still, very cool work!
The blog makes it clear that "standard" GPU here is in opposition to purpose-built hardware like Cerebras. The selling point is reaching the same order of magnitude in generative speed as those approaches.