diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index acfe76d53c3..0ebd994b1aa 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 pip>=9.0.1
-numpy>1.16,<2.0
+numpy>1.16,<2.1
 sympy>=1.9,<1.13
 psutil>=5.1.0,<7.0
 py-cpuinfo<10
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5d22060ba09..82bb8717554 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,10 +1,28 @@
 import versioneer
 
 import os
+import pkg_resources
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
+
+def numpy_compat(required):
+    new_reqs = [r for r in required if "numpy" not in r and "sympy" not in r]
+    try:
+        sympy_version = pkg_resources.get_distribution("sympy").version
+        min_ver2 = pkg_resources.parse_version("1.12.1")
+        if pkg_resources.parse_version(sympy_version) < min_ver2:
+            new_reqs.append("numpy>1.16,<2.0")
+        else:
+            new_reqs.append("numpy>=2.0")
+    except pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound:
+        new_reqs.extend(["sympy>=1.12.1", "numpy>=2.0"])
+
+    return new_reqs
+
+
 with open('requirements.txt') as f:
     required = f.read().splitlines()
+    required = numpy_compat(required)
 
 with open('requirements-optional.txt') as f:
     optionals = f.read().splitlines()