I have absolutely never ever "asked" to stop R&D on LLMs.

In fact, I was very supportive of LLM efforts at Meta. Just look up my public advocacy for Galactica (November 2022), and the open sourcing of OPT-175B (May 2022), and of the Llama herd (mid 2023).
I was actually influential in convincing the Meta leadership to start an AI-first product division built around Llama in January 2023.

I've always said that LLMs were impressive, useful, and had amazing potential.
I've also always said they were an off-ramp on the path towards human-level AI.

Stop making me say things I didn't say or claim that I somehow hindered LLM R&D at Meta.
That's BS.