diff --git a/llmware/requirements.txt b/llmware/requirements.txt
index 13316900..88e34034 100644
--- a/llmware/requirements.txt
+++ b/llmware/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 #   please see also requirements_extras.txt
 
 #   installed with standard pip
-numpy>=1.23.2,<2.0
+numpy>=1.23.2  
 requests
 huggingface-hub>=0.19.4
 tokenizers>=0.15.0