diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index b708a384d..c3673c0c6 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 pybind11==2.6.2
 six
 regex
-numpy==1.20.2
+numpy==1.21.0
 git+git://github.com/EleutherAI/DeeperSpeed.git@eb7f5cff36678625d23db8a8fe78b4a93e5d2c75#egg=deepspeed
 mpi4py==3.0.3
 wandb==0.10.28