diff --git a/backends/python/server/Makefile b/backends/python/server/Makefile
index 4e9d7d7c..6402d63f 100644
--- a/backends/python/server/Makefile
+++ b/backends/python/server/Makefile
@@ -15,8 +15,7 @@ gen-server:
 
 install: gen-server
 	pip install pip --upgrade
-	pip install torch==2.5.1
-	pip install -r requirements.txt
+	pip install --no-deps -r requirements.txt
 	pip install -e .
 
 run-dev:
diff --git a/backends/python/server/pyproject.toml b/backends/python/server/pyproject.toml
index b07bd153..0654eb77 100644
--- a/backends/python/server/pyproject.toml
+++ b/backends/python/server/pyproject.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ opentelemetry-api = "^1.25.0"
 opentelemetry-exporter-otlp = "^1.25.0"
 opentelemetry-instrumentation-grpc = "^0.46b0"
 sentence-transformers = "^3.3.1"
-torch = "^2.5.1"
 
 [tool.poetry.extras]