diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2268e08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+name: ammico-dev
+channels:
+  - pytorch
+  - nvidia
+  - rapidsai
+  - conda-forge
+  - defaults
+
+dependencies:
+  - python=3.11
+  - cudatoolkit=11.8
+  - pytorch=2.3.1 
+  - pytorch-cuda=11.8 
+  - torchvision=0.18.1
+  - torchaudio=2.3.1
+  - faiss-gpu-raft=1.8.0
+  - ipykernel
+  - jupyterlab
+  - jupyterlab_widgets
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 4cad313..1507f8b 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -18,16 +18,20 @@ classifiers = [
     "Operating System :: OS Independent",
     "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License",
 ]
-
+ 
 dependencies = [
+    "accelerate>=0.22",
+    "bitsandbytes",
     "colorgram.py",
     "colour-science",
     "dash",
     "dash-bootstrap-components",
+    "decord",
     "deepface",
     "google-cloud-vision",
-    "googletrans==4.0.0rc1",
+    "googletrans-py", # instead of googletrans4.0.0rc1, for a temporary solution due the incompatibility with jupyterlab
     "grpcio",
+    "huggingface-hub>=0.34.0",
     "importlib_metadata",
     "importlib_resources",
     "matplotlib",
@@ -36,12 +40,15 @@ dependencies = [
     "pandas",
     "Pillow",
     "pooch",
+    "qwen-vl-utils[decord]==0.0.8",
     "retina_face",
+    "safetensors>=0.6.2",
     "setuptools",
     "spacy",
-    "tensorflow<=2.16.0",
+    "tensorflow<2.15", # instead of <=2.16.0 to make it compatible with CUDA 11.8, may change after updating CUDA version.
     "tf-keras",
     "tqdm",
+    "transformers>=4.54",
     "webcolors",
 ]