Elon was never a big AI guy. He just jumped on the bandwagon as he's done for so many other things and it's kind of funny that they only successful AI IPO to pop off in the end may well be Elon's company... X, or spaceCar or whatever it's called.
I'd feel bad for the people who have done the real work to make LLMs happen from the start if so many of them weren't trying to inflate the tech's importance in their own way.
I guess it's not shocking when the hype master is the winner of the hype contest. But, there are still a lot of people who have not recognized that that is all that this is.