diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 24c1ae1cd4..0e2f0fd1bb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     "transformers[sentencepiece]>=4.29,<4.46.0",
     "torch>=1.11",
     "packaging",
-    "numpy<2.0",  # transformers requires numpy<2.0 https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/pull/31569
+    "numpy",
     "huggingface_hub>=0.8.0",
     "datasets",
 ]