The project described in the paper is https://simdjson.org/.
Source: https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/pysimdjson/
There's a rust port: https://github.com/simd-lite/simd-json
... From ijson https://pypi.org/project/ijson/#id3 which supports streaming JSON:
> Ijson provides several implementations of the actual parsing in the form of backends located in ijson/backends: [yajl2_c, yajl2_cffi, yajl2, yajl, python]