If you’re concerned that your favorite may be subsumed by the growing wave of AI, Vivaldi would like you to know they plan to resist.

Vivaldi, the small Norwegian-made browser which I use as an alternative to more mainstream browsers like Microsoft Edge and Google Chrome, said it plans to “choose humans over hype,” in the words of Jon von Tetzchner, the company’s chief executive.

“We’re taking a stand, choosing humans over hype, and we will not turn the joy of exploring into inactive spectatorship,” von Tetzchner said in a statement, shared by the company. “Without exploration, the web becomes far less interesting. Our curiosity loses oxygen and the diversity of the web dies.”

To be fair, Vivaldi reportedly employs just 150 people. Anthropic, whose AI browser, is one of a number of br

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