diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index f687ac648..27fb281c9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ authors = [
 ]
 description = "Llama-cookbook is a companion project to the Llama models. It's goal is to provide examples to quickly get started with fine-tuning for domain adaptation and how to run inference for the fine-tuned models."
 readme = "README.md"
-requires-python = ">=3.8"
+requires-python = ">=3.10"
 classifiers = [
     "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
     "License :: Other/Proprietary License",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a5d218b8a..a500a0329 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ typing-extensions>=4.8.0
 tabulate
 evaluate
 rouge_score
-pyyaml==6.0.1
-faiss-gpu; python_version < '3.11'
+pyyaml>=6.0.1
+faiss-cpu
 unstructured[pdf]
 sentence_transformers
 codeshield
 gradio
-markupsafe==2.0.1
+markupsafe>=2.1