Open AI releases their first reinforcement learning toolkit. Why is this significant?

You probably have read about it. Being a man of action he is doing something about it and has founded, together with other folks a non profit organization called Open AI. Open AI has assembled some of the best talent in the Deep Learning community. They went to Joshua Benglio, who is the only one of the Deep Learning "founding fathers" not working for a software company, and asked him to name a list of the best talent working on Deep Learning. They made offers to 10 of them and 9 accepted to join the effort.