diff --git a/install/requirements.txt b/install/requirements.txt
index e22fdedf3..bda626257 100644
--- a/install/requirements.txt
+++ b/install/requirements.txt
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ tiktoken
 # Miscellaneous
 snakeviz
 sentencepiece
-numpy
+# numpy version range required by GGUF util
+numpy >= 1.17, < 2.0
 gguf
 blobfile
 tomli >= 1.1.0 ; python_version < "3.11"