Their updated post on the Huggingface incident states:
No models planned for upcoming release were involved in exploiting Hugging Face. The pre-release model mentioned in our blog post is an internal-only research prototype and was never intended for public release. Following the incident, we deactivated, encrypted, and restricted it from research access.
Their updated post on the Huggingface incident states:
Altman today also told reporters that the model in question has been ‘deactivated permanently’. https://x.com/Dareasmunhoz/status/2082511870376743110
So my assumption here is that he means they paused training of the model in question and have rolled back to some previous model.