diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e969b2f..b38600a 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -4,10 +4,16 @@ python-multipart==0.0.6
 sqlalchemy==2.0.23
 alembic==1.12.1
 boto3==1.34.0
-openai==1.51.0
+
+# Downgraded OpenAI SDK to avoid `proxies` error
+openai==1.7.2
+
+# Whisper + Torch require numpy<2
 openai-whisper==20231117
 torch==2.1.2
 torchaudio==2.1.2
+numpy<2.0
+
 python-decouple==3.8
 ruff==0.1.6
 requests==2.31.0
@@ -16,4 +22,4 @@ python-dotenv==1.0.0
 email-validator==2.1.0
 google-auth==2.25.2
 google-auth-oauthlib==1.1.0
-google-auth-httplib2==0.2.0
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+google-auth-httplib2==0.2.0