diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 669384667ad0dc..5b6a461783cc54 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -273,7 +273,6 @@ def run(self):
     extras["flax"] = deps_list("jax", "jaxlib", "flax", "optax")
 
 extras["tokenizers"] = deps_list("tokenizers")
-extras["safetensors"] = deps_list("safetensors")
 extras["ftfy"] = deps_list("ftfy")
 extras["onnxruntime"] = deps_list("onnxruntime", "onnxruntime-tools")
 extras["onnx"] = deps_list("onnxconverter-common", "tf2onnx") + extras["onnxruntime"]