diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index 6cf8ded2..f1995290 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -93,15 +93,16 @@ RUN if [ "$USE_OLLAMA" = "true" ]; then \
 # install python dependencies
 COPY ./backend/requirements.txt ./requirements.txt
 
-RUN if [ "$USE_CUDA" = "true" ]; then \
+RUN pip3 install uv && \
+    if [ "$USE_CUDA" = "true" ]; then \
         # If you use CUDA the whisper and embedding model will be downloaded on first use
         pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/$USE_CUDA_DOCKER_VER --no-cache-dir && \
-        pip3 install -r requirements.txt --no-cache-dir && \
+        uv pip install --system -r requirements.txt --no-cache-dir && \
         python -c "import os; from faster_whisper import WhisperModel; WhisperModel(os.environ['WHISPER_MODEL'], device='cpu', compute_type='int8', download_root=os.environ['WHISPER_MODEL_DIR'])" && \
         python -c "import os; from chromadb.utils import embedding_functions; sentence_transformer_ef = embedding_functions.SentenceTransformerEmbeddingFunction(model_name=os.environ['RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL'], device='cpu')"; \
     else \
         pip3 install torch torchvision torchaudio --index-url https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu --no-cache-dir && \
-        pip3 install -r requirements.txt --no-cache-dir && \
+        uv pip install --system -r requirements.txt --no-cache-dir && \
         python -c "import os; from faster_whisper import WhisperModel; WhisperModel(os.environ['WHISPER_MODEL'], device='cpu', compute_type='int8', download_root=os.environ['WHISPER_MODEL_DIR'])" && \
         python -c "import os; from chromadb.utils import embedding_functions; sentence_transformer_ef = embedding_functions.SentenceTransformerEmbeddingFunction(model_name=os.environ['RAG_EMBEDDING_MODEL'], device='cpu')"; \
     fi