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Meet AI Santa, a magical holiday experience powered by Tavus. See and talk with Santa in real-time across 30 languages, discover your naughty or nice status, and push old St. Nick's buttons! Fork and deploy the demo in seconds to put your own spin on AI Santa.

Ho Ho Woah.. AI Santa?! 🎅 Hey Product Hunters, Hassaan & Quinn here from Tavus, back with a cheesy tagline and something festive! We’re thrilled to unveil AI Santa—the first fully interactive, hyperrealistic Santa powered by our Conversational Video Interface (CVI), which was product of the day back in August. And before we get too far, a huge shout out to @garrytan for hunting us! So what’s so special about our AI Santa? Not only does AI Santa see you, hear you, and talk to you in real-time, but he pulls out all the stops to create a magical experience. AI Santa is here to show just how far the Conversational Video Interface has come. The Tavus magic that brings AI Santa to life: 🎄Real-time interactions ⏱️ Conversations flow seamlessly with <1 second response times and natural interrupts, making chatting natural and smooth. 🎄Agentic capabilities 🤖 AI Santa can handle tool calling, multimodal inputs (voice + visual), and even different pipeline modes, keeping interactions fluid across multi-turn conversations. 🎄Hyperrealistic visuals 👀 Built with silent frame segmentation and advanced 3D rendering (powered by our Gaussian Splat backbone), Santa’s appearance feels incredibly lifelike. 🎄Global Reach 🌎 AI Santa speaks your language! Tavus supports 30 languages, so AI Santa can bring holiday magic to everyone, no matter where you’re from or what language you speak. 🎄Workflow-centric 🛠️ Santa isn’t just fun—his backend is designed for real-world applications. From sentiment analysis to structured function calls, this tech can handle complex workflows. This isn’t just just holiday fun… It’s the perfect, festive showcase of Tavus’s APIs, which are already being used in production across industries like healthcare, education, recruiting, and customer support. The possibilities are transformational: AI-powered digital twins, intelligent agents, and more. 🤖 Developer first, always: we’re making it easier than ever to build. Want to put your spin on AI Santa? You can fork, deploy, and customize the demo in minutes. Our pipeline is fully modular which makes it simple to adapt Santa, or build entirely new interactive agents. Explore the repo: https://git.new/santa. We’d love for you to try it out! Talk to Santa at https://santa.tavus.io Let us know your thoughts. We’re excited to see the version of AI Santa you bring to life. Happy holidays! 🎄✨

@garrytan @hassaan_raza97 Congrats on launching this magical app and happy holidays!

I am speaking with a lot of excitement that I will be able to communicate with real Santa and experience something new this Christmas. This technology is truly mind-blowing.

@garrytan @hassaan_raza97 This has been such an inspiring product to work on with y'all, and the AI Santa is a perfect representation of today's capabilities. I remember using CVI for the first time ever earlier this summer- it was a surreal experience at the time, and it's continued to evolve every day. Proud of the whole team ❤️ This is truly a magical product, and this is only the start.

@monika_singh16 It is incredible. I am excited you'll be visiting me online this year.

The speed at which this tech is being improved here is honestly mind blowing, huge shoutout to the team for making this happen! From the mini-game of trying to get on Santa's nice list to Santa commenting on my appearance, the strength of this version of CVI lies in the power and customizability of its workflow. I hope everyone is able to get into the festive mood and have great conversations with Santa!

@mert_gerdan It's amazing to see how much has shipped since the initial launch in August. The small features like the games, the intonatation, etc make such a difference in naturalness 🚀

@mert_gerdan every.single.person that i've talked to from my family says their favorite part is when Santa comments on their appearance or just what is in the background! soooo incredible, truly

Very exciting to use this new thing. It looks like my childhood dream of talking to Santa on Christmas days has come real now. But with so many benefits. I can't get so many gifts from this Santa but can get so much information about anything.

@yashi_bhilwara1 this is Amazing Yashi- I'm so glad you had such an awesome experience, and that your dreams came true here! 🎁 It sounds like the next feature we need to build for AI Santa is gift giving 😎