diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 6b1dc7608..7fa091a8a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ build-ui: ## Build the leapfrogai_ui container and Zarf package
 
 setup-llama-cpp-python-deps: sdk-wheel ## Download the wheels for the optional 'llama-cpp-python' dependencies
 	-rm packages/llama-cpp-python/build/*.whl
+
+	## The external link is needed to pull a pre-compiled cpu wheel for llama-cpp-python
 	python -m pip wheel packages/llama-cpp-python -w packages/llama-cpp-python/build --find-links=${SDK_DEST}
 
 build-llama-cpp-python: local-registry setup-llama-cpp-python-deps ## Build the llama-cpp-python (cpu) container and Zarf package
diff --git a/packages/llama-cpp-python/pyproject.toml b/packages/llama-cpp-python/pyproject.toml
index 68e507103..341562cca 100644
--- a/packages/llama-cpp-python/pyproject.toml
+++ b/packages/llama-cpp-python/pyproject.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ version = "0.6.1"
 # x-release-please-end
 
 dependencies = [
-    "llama-cpp-python == 0.2.28",
+    "llama-cpp-python == 0.2.70",
     "leapfrogai-sdk",
 ]
 requires-python = "~=3.11"