Vivaldi says no to AI features

Vivaldi has announced that it won't add AI features to its browser. The Norway-based company's CEO, Jon von Tetzchner, says users are becoming spectators as AI is taking over browsers.

Here is a quote from the article published on Vivaldi's blog,

"We’re taking a stand, choosing humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship. Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting. Our curiosity loses oxygen and the diversity of the web dies."

Tetzchner took some shots at Google and Microsoft for bundling AI into Chrome, and Edge and letting them perform actions on the user's behalf, scan what is on the screen, etc. He also pointed out how AI summaries are affecting web publishers, they lose traffic because users don't visit the website if they find the information in an AI-generated summary. Tetzchner warns that the future of web browsers is based on "who controls the pathway to information, and who gets to monetize you".

Vivaldi will "not add an LLM to add a chatbot, a summarization solution or a suggestion engine to fill up forms for you, until more rigorous ways to do those things are available."

He nailed it. OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and the others have created a lot of hype, they have convinced people that not using AI is inconvenient, slow, boring, and in the way of progress. Unfortunately, many people have fallen for such marketing tactics, without an ounce of care about their privacy.

https://www.ghacks.net/2025/08/29/vivaldi-says-no-to-ai-features/