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! 🎄✨

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!

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.

Congrats on bringing AI Santa to life, @ari_korin1 @nikita_dfp @roey_paz_priel @teodora_iliev 🎅🏼️ How does the backend handle multiple languages seamlessly? Just curious.

I just asked Santa Claus to be Product of day for our next launch. Crossing the fingers. Congrats for the product, it's really well done, fluid and entertaining. Santa Claus actually made think of 1 new feature to implement for our product. Keep going.

Such a unique and interactive experience that brought the joy, wonder, and nostalgic memory of the holiday season directly to me. So cool!!!

So cool. Congrats @hassaan_raza97 @quinn_favret !

Amazing work as always from the Tavus team, this is so fun, great work @hassaan_raza97 and co!

Wow, after all that brandy & he can do <1 second response time is very impressive - I bet this was a fun project to make!! How long did it take to run through the data to make him a fully-fledged Santa, did it take a few weeks?

I asked Santa some very personal and tricky questions (that’s what he said) and got to know that Mrs. Claus is the love of his life. When I asked about their love story, he said he’d share it with me over a cup of tea next time!😂 Also, I heard Santa sing “Jingle Bell” live for the first time. What an amazing and fun experience🎄🙌

This is super super cool! GREAT JOB Tavus!

Love this! It’s crazy seeing how far CVI has come in just a couple of months. I loved talking to Santa and seeing how function calling can be seamlessly integrated with the frontend Can’t wait to see what everyone builds with this and excited to hear about everyones Santa chats!

Would you rather wait in line for your child to sit on a random Santa's lap for ten seconds or be able to speak to him anytime conveniently from anywhere?

Can't wait to build my own Santa!!

Hey everyone and all of Santa's elves! 🎅 Beyond excited to share our AI Santa with you - it’s not just a fun holiday gimmick, it’s a showcase of what our Conversational Video Interface tech can do! AI Santa sees you, hears you, and talks to you in real-time, with <1 second response times and lifelike visuals powered by advanced 3D rendering. He speaks 30+ languages, handles complex conversations with tools and workflows, and is fully customizable for developers to fork and adapt. Whether it’s spreading holiday cheer or powering serious use cases in healthcare, education, and more, this is a taste of the future with Tavus’s APIs (sky is the limit here!) My family and friends have spent the last couple days talking to Santa throughout the day, and their most favorite part is when he comments on something he "sees" such as a cool Christmas sweater, brothers and sisters sitting next to each other, your dog in the background.....it is definitely my fave too! I'm beyond proud of working on this with our team and seeing the public's support and great experience pour in! Check it out and let us know what you think!

Wow, this looks amazing! Can't wait to try it this holiday season with the family.

very cool! it's so realistic and natural sounding and very fun to talk to!

Is it celebrating Christmas or are there other characters?

Love the use case! Such a cool way to show off the conversational tech

I love seeing these releases from Tavus. This team is showing us the future of conversational AI: fast, great video, responsive to what's on camera, easy to customize, well thought through APIs for developers. But having demos that are easy for people to relate to is almost as important as building the underlying tech. Santa for the win!