diff --git a/cirq-core/requirements.txt b/cirq-core/requirements.txt
index 87f827961b8..41aee37ebf9 100644
--- a/cirq-core/requirements.txt
+++ b/cirq-core/requirements.txt
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ attrs>=21.3.0
 duet>=0.2.8
 matplotlib~=3.0
 networkx>=2.4
-numpy>=2.0
+numpy>=1.25
 pandas
 sortedcontainers~=2.0
 scipy~=1.1