diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 18d55569d4..229ccc8b5c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ dependencies = [
     "lightning>=2.0",
     "ml-collections>=0.1.1",
     "mudata>=0.1.2",
-    "numpy<2.0",
     "numpyro>=0.12.1",
     "pandas",
     "pyro-ppl>=1.6.0",