diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index c46d965f89409f7d92ac8bf305d0431b5bfbe93e..3a0c2c357a0e463c7b9e03b657ce5413adb420fa 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -853,21 +853,6 @@ files = [
     {file = "executing-1.0.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:98daefa9d1916a4f0d944880d5aeaf079e05585689bebd9ff9b32e31dd5e1017"},
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "faiss-gpu"
-version = "1.7.2"
-description = "A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors."
-category = "main"
-optional = false
-python-versions = "*"
-files = [
-    {file = "faiss_gpu-1.7.2-cp310-cp310-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:c98abc1aac06cb4cb94de223b3186bd4a60d15fd3cae42271604168abc081ca5"},
-    {file = "faiss_gpu-1.7.2-cp36-cp36m-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:38796433b2fe43f3a602be18668969af615a3a898e897366e6997b409b0deeab"},
-    {file = "faiss_gpu-1.7.2-cp37-cp37m-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:040a413be699077931b781e470468c6b5084342c5d5773ce8d916f04b25d8c9c"},
-    {file = "faiss_gpu-1.7.2-cp38-cp38-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:e85a6bc975b2f233eb056584f33bbce8613c453c9024c099052a423eebabee23"},
-    {file = "faiss_gpu-1.7.2-cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_17_x86_64.manylinux2014_x86_64.whl", hash = "sha256:3ca9bfa2fda868f438a2f05c1d5aed53021bfaa55b25fd3ae666d2da201f3caf"},
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "fastjsonschema"
 version = "2.16.2"
@@ -5030,4 +5015,4 @@ omero = ["omero-py"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.8, <3.11"
-content-hash = "309871c83333d2fef9611b689ae079565c398e78adac2910f6fcc7986784f7f8"
+content-hash = "7a61f4f52787c6ec0c904435d2998649439ab1afcd4a70dd949bf9f2e0e8a3d5"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2c75145dc9fd514490a5567b8beda3ddfd201baf..cb5706e46b26bfb104ace8ad8e34d47d056e59c9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ omero-py = { version = ">=5.6.2", optional = true } # contact omero server
 zeroc-ice = { version="3.6.5", optional = true } # networking interface, slow to build
 GitPython = "^3.1.27"
 Bottleneck = "^1.3.5"
-faiss-gpu = "^1.7.2"
 
 [tool.poetry.extras]
 omero = [ "omero-py" ]