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🎄 OpenAI? Nah. You're OpenSANTA
Elf-as-a-Service Is Live. Free Santa Video Inside
Wendy
December 24, 2025
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This is a special Christmas edition of AI Fire. We’re keeping it light, warm, and personal today. Scroll down till the end, there’s a little gift waiting for you 🎁 Merry Christmas!
What's on FIRE 🔥
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LEVANTA
The Future of Shopping? AI + Actual Humans.
AI has changed how consumers shop by speeding up research. But one thing hasn’t changed: shoppers still trust people more than AI.
Levanta’s new Affiliate 3.0 Consumer Report reveals a major shift in how shoppers blend AI tools with human influence. Consumers use AI to explore options, but when it comes time to buy, they still turn to creators, communities, and real experiences to validate their decisions.
The data shows:
Only 10% of shoppers buy through AI-recommended links
87% discover products through creators, blogs, or communities they trust
Human sources like reviews and creators rank higher in trust than AI recommendations
The most effective brands are combining AI discovery with authentic human influence to drive measurable conversions.
Affiliate marketing isn’t being replaced by AI, it’s being amplified by it.
AI INSIGHTS
Here’s Event 1. Click to see all the Events
Most robot demos look impressive, until you say, “Cool. Now do my dishes.” PI’s new Robot Olympics is the first time someone actually tried that challenge and kept score. Here’s what this “Robot Olympics” actually tested:
Get through a self-closing door with a lever handle without getting stuck
Turn a sock right-side-out → π0.6 did it, but admitted it cannot handle shirt sleeves yet
Insert a key into a lock and turn it without missing
Wash a greasy pan with soap + water like a real human who’s tired of crusty eggs
Open a thin plastic dog poop bag while the bag blinds your camera sensors mid-move → This one is ridiculously hard
Their π0.6 robot handled messy, unpredictable real-world chores, completely autonomously, it really did try to scrub a dirty pan and flip a sock. All videos were fully autonomous. Repeatability across real homes is still the missing piece.
What’s even more crazy is that if you fine-tune the robot on egocentric human video, the robot gets better, even without new robot data.
So, instead of feeding robots thousands of hours of robot demos, we might just feed them… footage of people doing stuff normally.
PRESENTED BY MASTERWORKS
Wall Street Isn’t Warning You, But This Chart Might
Vanguard just projected public markets may return only 5% annually over the next decade. In a 2024 report, Goldman Sachs forecasted the S&P 500 may return just 3% annually for the same time frame—stats that put current valuations in the 7th percentile of history.
Translation? The gains we’ve seen over the past few years might not continue for quite a while.
Meanwhile, another asset class—almost entirely uncorrelated to the S&P 500 historically—has overall outpaced it for decades (1995-2024), according to Masterworks data.
Masterworks lets everyday investors invest in shares of multimillion-dollar artworks by legends like Banksy, Basquiat, and Picasso.
And they’re not just buying. They’re exiting—with net annualized returns like 17.6%, 17.8%, and 21.5% among their 23 sales.*
Wall Street won’t talk about this. But the wealthy already are. Shares in new offerings can sell quickly but…
*Past performance is not indicative of future returns. Important Reg A disclosures: masterworks.com/cd.
AI SOURCES FROM AI FIRE
1. GPT Image 1.5 vs Nano Banana Pro: Which one truly wins when you do real work? If you make ads, thumbnails, memes,… this will save you hours of trial and error
2. How to edit photos like Photoshop directly inside ChatGPT (No app needed). It’s really that easy & convenient for Photoshop-lovers
3. Here’s how to turn your forgotten posts into Free traffic & money with one flow. The exact system to turn archived posts into traffic without hiring more
🎅 KNOCK, KNOCK! ARE U SANTA CLAUS?
Click to create and see more “SUPER CUTE” reactions
Joy doesn’t have to be big or expensive. Sometimes, it’s a 30-second message from Santa saying, “I see you. I’m proud of you.”
And now you can send that magic to your love, completely free. You can easily create a personalized AI Santa video in just 3 steps:
Step 1: Pick your favorite Santa style (classic, cute, or quirky)
Step 2: Write a personal message, use your own voice, or let us help
Step 3: Enter their email, we’ll take care of the rest. Or you can download the video and share it your way
Note: If you record your loved one’s reaction, you could win 1 FREE month of Synthesia Premium.
💌 HOLIDAY MESSAGE FROM AI FIRE TEAM
Today’s a little different. Not a normal issue, this is a special edition, because you’re part of something special.
Every day, we build AI tools, tutorials, and workflows. But none of it means anything without you. Every time you leave a comment saying you learned something, or that a small tip helped you do more, we cheer harder than you think.
So, on this special day, we just want to say: Each of us, in AI Fire team, really appreciate you. We’re here for you, not just as readers, but as true friends!
If there’s one thing we believe in, it’s that tech should bring people closer, not pull them apart. So today, we’re not here to teach or sell or automate. We just want to help you make someone feel loved.
Merry Christmas. You’ve made this year brighter just by being here 🎄🎄🎄
Take a break today, or take a few AI books if that’s your thing, but either way, we’re grateful you’re here.
- From AI Fire team, to all of you ❤
SPECIAL AI TOOLS FOR YOUR XMAS DAY
❤ SantaCalls.ai is a FREE AI voice calls with Santa Claus for children. Safe, magical, personalised conversations with Santa
🎁 Story Generator Pro creates personalized stories featuring yourself, your child, your loved ones
🎄 Google Shopping compares prices across different retailers. You can track a specific product and receive a notification when the price is in your desired budget
💪 Honey (by PayPal) automatically finds and applies available coupon codes at checkout
🛒 BuyScout provides AI product insights, summarizes reviews, tracks prices,…
🎥 EgoX turns any third-person video into a first-person POV version. Ex: "The Dark Knight" - Joker for your kids
AI BREAKTHROUGH
MiniMax dropped M2.1, a serious contender to Claude Sonnet, but fully open & deeply agent-native. Devs are already calling it “Claude vibes at 10% of the price”, and this time, they might be right. Here’s a quick taste of what it can do:
72.5% on SWE-Multilingual → better than Claude Sonnet 4.5 & Gemini 3 Pro
Native support for Rust, Java, Golang, Kotlin, TypeScript, Objective-C,…
88.6% on VIBE-Bench → huge win for Android/iOS native app dev and even realistic web design
Can build full-stack apps that don’t look like AI spaghetti
M2.1 can update its plan mid-task, which sounds small but is huge for agents. Most models just follow a static plan and fall apart when something changes. Here, it:
Revises steps after each action & corrects mistakes on its own
Finishes complex multi-step workflows without hallucinating mid-run
It’s been running laps around GPT-3.5-tier agents and even holding up well against Claude 2 in practice. The API is live now, so you can use it anytime.
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