I think before that question is useful to ask, we have to know if that FAQ even says anything about LLM-based tutoring. After a few minutes of research, I can't find any evidence that Math Academy offers LLM-based tutoring.
I'm using LLMs alongside Math Academy. Math Academy uses machine learning generally (and so now they plug their "AI" technology) but it's not transformer-model-style AI ML; as I understand it, it's just driving their underlying spaced repetition system (which is interleaved through lots of different units).
In the scenario I'm discussing, Math Academy's content is a non-generative source of truth, against which I've benchmarked GPT5 and O4-mini.
Everything described there sounds like old-school adaptive algorithms. I don't see anything about generative AI or LLMs.
I asked Google if MA does LLM tutoring and got back this answer:
> Math Academy does not offer Large Language Model (LLM) tutoring. While the company advertises itself as "AI-powered," this is in reference to a machine-learning-based adaptive learning system, not an interactive LLM tutor.
You're right, I may have misinterpreted what tptacek said: he said he was using LLMs and that he was using Math Academy but I interpreted that as "Math Academy includes LLM features" - actually it's equally likely he's using Math Academy and having LLMs tutor him on the side.