The official American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Santa Tracker has been updated for 2024. The tracker has existed for over two decades and has received several contributions from Microsoft.

Microsoft this year added a new AI-powered chatbot called Radar The Elf that takes questions and answers to improve your Santa tracking experience. Christmas elves are often depicted as tiny creatures with pointy ears and colorful clothing. They live with Santa Claus at the North Pole and are his helpers.

To start using the chatbot, click the radar button in the bottom left corner of the tracker webpage. A chat box will appear where you can ask questions in natural language and the chatbot will respond accordingly. For example, you can ask questions like “Where is Santa Claus now?” or “Is Santa Claus getting cold?” or “Do reindeer eat cookies?”

Microsoft’s Radar the Elf can answer questions about Santa and NORAD in 133 languages. It also supports real-time language translation, allowing you to have multilingual interactions. The chatbot automatically adapts when you ask the same question in multiple languages.

You can set your preferred language and allow cookies on the website; Radar remembers language preferences for future interactions. “Even without cookies, Radar uses the first language selected as the preferred language for each new session,” Microsoft said in a blog post.

You can also click on any of the houses on the Tracker website to access the library, play games, find Santa music, watch Santa videos, and more. NORAD Santa Tracker will go live in approximately three and a half days as Santa Claus begins his journey from the North Pole to travel the world, delivering gifts to children along the way.

If you’re wondering how Santa Claus will accomplish the feat in a single night: “NORAD intelligence reports suggest Santa Claus doesn’t experience time the way we do. It seems that Santa Claus has this way of transcending time. We estimated that it travels at the speed of starlight!” The chatbot replied.

The Santa Tracker is also available as an app for Android and iOS.