People who work for him may well be experts. That doesn’t mean he knows anything at all about it himself.
Musk didn’t do any of the things you listed, companies he has ownership in did.
Musk didn’t do any of the things you listed, companies he has ownership in did.
So he put the design team as the highest in Apple, and had every other team answer to the constraints of the design. It worked.
Musk may not "understand AI", but he understands what AI can be made to do, and he knows what he likes.
Which frankly, for the boss, is more important than understanding the code. And, he knows how to find and hire the right talent, how to excite them, and how to keep them. And how to ship.
IMO it is unfair to say "his company did it" especially when his rivals in each of those industries failed where he succeeded (including OpenAI, which he gets at least some credit for). He understands enough of what he needs to about both AI and business to make it work.
Musk is a bullshitter who has bootstrapped his way to success, admittedly successfully. However, when you look at his well covered statements (too darned many of them :) post-Twitter, it’s obvious that he, for example, knows nothing about software, datacenter admin, nor the world of advertising. I’m willing to extrapolate to believe that he knows little more than the veneer of science and technology that’s necessary to persuade others to finance him.
/s, hopefully obviously.