diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 92be4c0771..6b3b1162d4 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ requires = [
   "ninja>=1.11.1; platform_system!='Windows'",
   "cmake>=3.29.0",
   "cython>=3.0.10",
-  "numpy >=1.23",
+  "numpy >=2.0.0",
   # WARNING: check with doc how to upgrade
   "versioneer[toml]==0.29"
 ]
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ dependencies = [
   # TODO: do we have to set sycl runtime dependencies here
   # "dpcpp-cpp-rt>=0.59.0",
   # "intel-cmplr-lib-rt>=0.59.0"
-  "numpy>=1.23.0"
+  "numpy>=2.0.0"
 ]
 description = "A lightweight Python wrapper for a subset of SYCL."
 dynamic = ["version"]