diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 125cc8d4cf..f2a1232fb3 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 --pre --extra-index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu
 torch == 2.1.2
+numpy < 2
 transformers == 4.33.1
 tokenizers == 0.13.3
 sentencepiece == 0.1.99