diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 536474df2..39fe0c611 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ pydantic>=2.5.3
 python_docx==0.8.11
 PyYAML==6.0.1
 # sentence_transformers==2.2.2
-setuptools==65.6.3
+setuptools>=65.6.3
 tenacity==8.2.3
 tiktoken==0.7.0
 tqdm==4.66.2