diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6ea83f8..d6bbdff 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "numpy==1.26.0",
     "lamindb[bionty,jupyter,cellregistry,zarr]>=1.0.4,<2",
     "cellxgene-census>=0.1.0",
-    "torch==2.2.0",
+    "torch==2.6.0",
     "pytorch-lightning>=2.3.0",
     "anndata>=0.9.0",
     "zarr>=2.10.0",