diff --git a/requirements/requirements.txt b/requirements/requirements.txt
index cd23fc6d3..337419b1d 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 dependencies==2.0.1
 packaging
-setuptools>=0.70
+setuptools<70.0
 sympy
 torch>=1.9.1
 typing-extensions>=3.7.4