diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 95f9505..dd026d4 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -13,6 +13,3 @@
 [submodule "third_party/protobuf"]
 	path = third_party/protobuf
 	url = https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf
-[submodule "third_party/pybind11"]
-	path = third_party/pybind11
-	url = https://github.com/pybind/pybind11
diff --git a/third_party/pybind11 b/third_party/pybind11
deleted file mode 160000
index 97784da..0000000
--- a/third_party/pybind11
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit 97784dad3e518ccb415d5db57ff9b933495d9024