diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f6eff634a..77e0052a2 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ requires = [
     "wheel",
     "cython>=3.0.8",
     "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2",
-    "numpy>=1.25<2.0",
+    "numpy>=1.25",
     "scikit-learn>=1.3",
     "scipy>=1.6.0",
 ]