India, June 23 -- Union minister of state for commerce & industry and electronics & IT Jitin Prasada launched BharatGPT Mini, a compact small language model (SLM) built by Indian AI startup CoRover, at the VivaTech 2025 conference in Paris.

Unlike larger, cloud-dependent language models, CoRover's SLM is built to operate offline, on-device and in multiple Indian languages. With 534 Mn parameters, BharatGPT Mini is optimised for use in areas with limited internet access or computing power.

BharatGPT supports 14 Indic languages and is trained on CoRover's proprietary conversational datasets. The model is built in India and is optimised for edge and server implementations, allowing seamless AI performance on low-end devices.

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