diff --git a/moshi/moshi/server.py b/moshi/moshi/server.py
index 771f491d..a2e596d5 100644
--- a/moshi/moshi/server.py
+++ b/moshi/moshi/server.py
@@ -426,7 +426,9 @@ def main():
 
     # Download config.json to increment download counter
     # No worries about double-counting since config.json will be cached the second time
-    hf_hub_download(args.hf_repo, "config.json")
+    # Skip when running in offline mode (HF_HUB_OFFLINE=1)
+    if not os.environ.get("HF_HUB_OFFLINE"):
+        hf_hub_download(args.hf_repo, "config.json")
 
     logger.info("loading mimi")
     if args.mimi_weight is None:
diff --git a/moshi/pyproject.toml b/moshi/pyproject.toml
index ead71e9c..bd20d1a5 100644
--- a/moshi/pyproject.toml
+++ b/moshi/pyproject.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "sentencepiece == 0.2",
     "sounddevice == 0.5",
     "sphn >= 0.1.4, < 0.2",
-    "torch >= 2.2.0, < 2.5",
+    "torch >= 2.2.0",
     "aiohttp>=3.10.5, <3.11",
 ]
 authors = [{name="Rajarshi Roy", email="rajarshir@nvidia.com"}]