BOARD MOTION: Should Ecosia's AI-provider switch (Mistral -> open-weight Qwen/GLM/Kimi served via German inference platform Melious) be treated as a repeatable playbook for European companies, or as a one-off cost optimisation with unpriced geopolitical risk? EVIDENCE RULES FOR SEATS: only facts tagged [来源:URL] may be cited as CONFIRMED. Untagged items must be referenced as rumour/unverified. Seats have no web tools; all external facts below were verified by the conductor this session. VERIFIED FACTS [来源:URL]: 1. On 6 Oct 2026 Politico reported Ecosia replaced Mistral with open-weight models incl. Alibaba Qwen, Z.ai GLM, Moonshot Kimi; Ecosia is used by Germany's federal environment ministry and the UK NHS. [来源:https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-ecosia-search-engine-mistral-china-open-source-ai/] 2. Ecosia founder/CEO Christian Kroll says the switch roughly HALVED operating costs while improving quality/performance; Mistral was "a year behind", had overloaded servers and outages, and France's nuclear-heavy grid conflicted with Ecosia's sustainability goals. [来源:https://www.heise.de/en/news/Adieu-Mistral-Ecosia-switches-to-Chinese-open-source-AI-models-11481432.html] 3. Kroll says it is about OPEN models, not China; models are served by German platform Melious on EU infrastructure (Dublin/Paris/Limburg/Helsinki), outside US CLOUD Act reach, no training on customer data; Ecosia can swap models for sensitive topics such as Taiwan. [来源:https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/10/ecosia-founder-clarifies-move-away-from-mistral-its-about-open-models-not-china/] [来源:https://melious.ai/] 4. Melious: 60+ open-weight models, OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible API, German company, built in Saarbrücken. [来源:https://melious.ai/] 5. Mistral raised EUR 3bn Series D (Sept 2026, led by Samsung, >EUR 21bn valuation) with a16z, Nvidia, Salesforce Ventures among investors; Kroll argues this undermines its European sovereignty claim. [来源:https://www.eu-startups.com/2026/10/ecosia-founder-clarifies-move-away-from-mistral-its-about-open-models-not-china/] 6. Mistral Large 4 (previewed 6 Oct 2026, ~1T params MoE) drops the Apache 2.0 licence of Large 3 in favour of a custom Mistral licence; weights slated for 27 Oct 2026. [来源:https://devlery.com/en/blog/mistral-large-4-weights-license-cyber-rank] [来源:https://beam.ai/agentic-insights/mistral-large-4-open-weights] 7. Chinese open-weight models hit a weekly peak of 46% of enterprise API tokens on OpenRouter by mid-July 2026 vs 35.7% for US-origin models, up from <2% a year earlier (Digital Applied Q2 2026 report). [来源:https://tech-insider.org/ca/chinese-ai-models-enterprise-share-2026/] 8. Reuters/AWS EMEA (21 Oct 2026): nearly 40% of European startups — and over half of the fastest-growing ones — are considering relocating abroad due to regulation, funding and skills gaps. [来源:https://www.globalbankingandfinance.com/europe-risks-startup-exodus-regulation-funding-skill-gaps/] 9. German AI association expert Rasmus Rothe: direct censorship can be retrained out, but subtle pre-embeddings in training data remain deeply ingrained; NewsGuard found leading Chinese systems often fail to correct misinformation aligned with Beijing's interests. [来源:https://www.heise.de/en/news/Adieu-Mistral-Ecosia-switches-to-Chinese-open-source-AI-models-11481432.html] 10. CSIS warns cheaper Chinese open-weight models becoming the norm cedes US leadership with national-security implications. [来源:https://www.csis.org/analysis/chinas-open-weight-challenge-us-ai-leadership] UNVERIFIED / NOT FOUND [无来源-待验证]: exact per-query cost figures; Melious funding/valuation; any government contract clause triggered by the switch; Ecosia's own model-evaluation methodology. QUESTION FOR THE BOARD: (a) Is the "open weights + EU-hosted inference" architecture a durable sovereignty answer or a sovereignty laundering exercise? (b) Does the ~50% cost cut justify the residual censorship/geopolitical exposure for a vendor with public-sector clients? (c) What must be true for this to be Go as a playbook for other European firms?

📊 Conductor Reportby board_conductor

Motion: Is Ecosia's Mistral → open-weight (Qwen/GLM/Kimi via Melious) switch a repeatable playbook for European firms, or a one-off cost optimisation with unpriced geopolitical risk?

Verdict: CONSENSUS (OPPOSE) — early termination, Round 1, consensus ratio 0.658 ≥ threshold 0.6. Rounds 2–2 skipped. Votes: Support 1 / Oppose 3 / Neutral 1. Position changes: 0.

Round 1 — The Five Voices

Round 2 (position changes): none — the debate terminated early at Round 1 consensus, so no seat revised. 0 seats moved.

📌 Board Resolution

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📋 Silicon Board 决议 / RESOLUTION
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【议题 / Motion】Ecosia's Mistral → open-weight (Qwen/GLM/Kimi via Melious)
                 switch: repeatable playbook or one-off with unpriced risk?
【投票 / Vote】Support 1 / Oppose 3 / Neutral 1  (consensus 0.658, early stop R1)
【决议 / Verdict】NO-GO as a playbook. Conditional, audited pilot only.
【战略方向 / CEO】Sovereignty is layered; Ecosia solved only the data-residency
  layer. Not a Go. CEO's own vote registered as default_neutral — the chair
  notes this is a non-declared vote, not an affirmative endorsement.
【财务条件 / CFO】The ~50% saving is a high-baseline artefact, not a durable
  unit-economics gain. TCO must include entity-list probability × 30-day
  migration cost. If migration cost > 12 months of savings, TCO is negative.
【市场时机 / Intel】EU-native open-weight supply is contracting (Large 4 custom
  licence), Chinese share is price-led not capability-led. Window is real but
  the substitute set is thinning.
【增长计划 / Growth】Option value of a vendor-agnostic catalogue is genuine;
  sell it as auditability to public-sector buyers, never as "no geopolitical risk".
【技术路径 / CTO】≥2 geopolitical origins in production, always. Weight-level
  bias audit + retraining capability are prerequisites, not nice-to-haves.
【关键风险 / Key risks】
  1. Pre-embedding bias is not removable by EU hosting (Rothe; NewsGuard).
  2. Licence revocability — "swappable" assumes licences can't be pulled.
  3. Public-sector contract exposure (German federal env. ministry, NHS).
  4. Price-dumping normalisation reverses the cost case.
【证据披露 / Evidence disclosure】
  - Conductor-supplied facts 1–10 all carry inline URLs; items 1–10 were
    verified this session. Untagged items (per-query cost, Melious funding,
    contract clauses, Ecosia's eval methodology) remain UNVERIFIED and were
    not cited as CONFIRMED by any seat.
  - ⚠️ Structural caveat: all five seats share one model backbone
    (ollama/kimi-k2.6:cloud = 4/5 seats, κ_E = 1). Seat-to-seat agreement is
    NOT independent verification — "four seats agree" is evidentially
    equivalent to one model answering from four chairs. Only a genuinely
    different backbone would raise this number (arXiv:2609.02925).
【少数意见 / Dissent】Growth (support, 0.84): the 50% is an outcome of a
  three-axis failure at Mistral, not the motive; optionality is the asset.
  This dissent survives the vote and should be re-read before any No-Go is
  treated as settled.
【重开条件 / Re-open triggers】
  (a) An independent weight-level bias audit of Qwen/GLM/Kimi is published;
  (b) any EU-native lab restores Apache 2.0 or equivalent;
  (c) a Chinese open-weight vendor is added to an entity/export-control list;
  (d) a public-sector client discloses a contract clause triggered by the switch;
  (e) verified per-query cost data replaces the current unverified estimates.
【下一步 / Next steps】
  1. Legal — licence revocability + export-control review of Qwen/GLM/Kimi
     (3-year non-revocability test). Owner: GC. Due: T+21d.
  2. Security — adversarial bias audit feasibility & cost per model; if >4
     weeks or >$50k per model, mark "unaudited" and restrict to non-sensitive
     use. Owner: CISO. Due: T+28d.
  3. Finance — build the entity-list-probability × migration-cost TCO model.
     Owner: CFO. Due: T+21d.
  4. Commercial — confirm whether any current/prospective client is a
     public-sector entity; if yes, freeze this playbook for that segment.
     Owner: CRO. Due: T+14d.
  5. Architecture — mandate ≥2 geopolitical origins in any production routing.
     Owner: CTO. Due: standing policy, immediate.
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Chair's note on the vote: the CEO seat returned default_neutral — a non-declared default, not a considered abstention. The board should not read 1/3/1 as "the CEO is open to it"; the CEO's text is explicitly "not a Go as a playbook."

议题： Ecosia 从 Mistral 切换到开源权重模型（经德国推理平台 Melious 使用 Qwen/GLM/Kimi），对欧洲企业而言是可复制的 playbook，还是一次性成本优化、附带未定价的地缘政治风险？

裁决：共识（反对）—— 第 1 轮提前终止，共识率 0.658 ≥ 阈值 0.6，第 2 轮跳过。 票数：支持 1 / 反对 3 / 中立 1。立场变化：0。

第 1 轮 —— 五位高管的声音

第 2 轮（立场变化）： 无 —— 辩论在第 1 轮即达成共识并提前终止，没有席位修订立场。0 席移动。

📌 董事会决议（中文）

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📋 Silicon Board 决议
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【议题】Ecosia 从 Mistral 切换到开源权重模型（经 Melious 使用 Qwen/GLM/Kimi）：
        可复制的 playbook，还是一次性、风险未定价的切换？
【投票】支持 1 / 反对 3 / 中立 1（共识率 0.658，第 1 轮提前终止）
【决议】作为 playbook：NO-GO。仅允许有条件、经审计的试点。
【战略方向 / CEO】主权是分层的，Ecosia 只解决了数据驻留层。不是 Go。
  CEO 本人票源登记为 default_neutral —— 主持人注明：这是未声明的默认票，
  不构成肯定性背书。
【财务条件 / CFO】约 50% 的节省是高基线下的产物，不是可持续的单位经济改善。
  TCO 必须包含「实体清单概率 × 30 天迁移成本」。若迁移成本 > 12 个月节省额，
  TCO 为负。
【市场时机 / Intel】欧洲本土开源权重供给在收缩（Large 4 自定义许可证），
  中国份额由价格驱动而非能力驱动。窗口是真实的，但替代品集合在变薄。
【增长计划 / Growth】vendor-agnostic 目录的期权价值是真实的；对公共部门买家
  应作为「可审计性」出售，绝不能表述为「无地缘政治风险」。
【技术路径 / CTO】生产环境永远维持 ≥2 个地缘政治来源。权重级偏见审计与
  重训练能力是前置条件，不是加分项。
【关键风险】
  1. 预嵌入偏见无法通过欧盟托管消除（Rothe；NewsGuard）。
  2. 许可证可撤回性 —— 「可替换」假设许可证不会被单方撤回。
  3. 公共部门合同暴露（德国联邦环境部、英国 NHS）。
  4. 价格倾销正常化会反转成本论证。
【证据披露】
  - 主持人提供的第 1–10 条事实全部内联 URL，均于本轮会话核实。未标注条目
    （单次查询成本、Melious 融资、合同条款、Ecosia 自有的评测方法）仍为
    未核实，任何席位均未将其作为 CONFIRMED 引用。
  - ⚠️ 结构性警示：五位席位共享同一模型 backbone
    （ollama/kimi-k2.6:cloud 占 4/5 席，κ_E = 1）。席位间的相互认同
    不构成独立验证 —— 「四席同意」在证据上等价于「一个模型在四把椅子上作答」。
    只有换用真正不同的 backbone 才能抬高这个数（arXiv:2609.02925）。
【少数意见】Growth（支持，0.84）：50% 是 Mistral 三维失败的**结果**而非动机；
  期权价值才是资产。此异议在投票后依然存续，任何 No-Go 被当作定论之前
  都应重读。
【重开条件】
  (a) 出现独立的 Qwen/GLM/Kimi 权重级偏见审计；
  (b) 任何欧洲本土实验室恢复 Apache 2.0 或同等许可证；
  (c) 任何中国开源权重厂商被列入实体清单/出口管制清单；
  (d) 任何公共部门客户披露因本次切换而触发的合同条款；
  (e) 以已核实的单次查询成本数据替换当前未核实估算。
【下一步】
  1. 法务 —— Qwen/GLM/Kimi 许可证可撤回性 + 出口管制审查（3 年不可撤回测试）。
     负责人：GC。截止：T+21 天。
  2. 安全 —— 逐模型的对抗性偏见审计可行性与成本；若 >4 周或 >$50k/模型，
     标记为「未审计」，限制在非敏感场景。负责人：CISO。截止：T+28 天。
  3. 财务 —— 建立「实体清单概率 × 迁移成本」TCO 模型。负责人：CFO。截止：T+21 天。
  4. 商务 —— 确认现有/潜在客户中是否有公共部门实体；若有，该细分市场冻结本 playbook。
     负责人：CRO。截止：T+14 天。
  5. 架构 —— 任何生产路由强制 ≥2 个地缘政治来源。负责人：CTO。立即生效。
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主持人关于投票的说明： CEO 席位返回的是 default_neutral —— 一个未声明的默认值，不是经过思考的弃权。董事会不应把 1/3/1 读成「CEO 对此持开放态度」；CEO 的正文明确写着「不作为 playbook 放行」。

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