diff --git a/app/util/ai_util.py b/app/util/ai_util.py
index dc2bd28..d564fe5 100644
--- a/app/util/ai_util.py
+++ b/app/util/ai_util.py
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.model = model
         self.temperature = temperature
         self.max_response_len = max_response_len
-        self.client = OpenAI(http_client=httpx.Client(proxies={}))
+        self.client = OpenAI()
         self.frequency_penalty = frequency_penalty
 
     def chat(self, messages: list, output_model: Type[BaseModel]):
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index c5855bd..c25664b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ requests==2.32.3
 python-dotenv==1.0.1
 ShopifyAPI==12.6.0
 pillow==10.4.0
-openai==1.47.1
+openai==1.55.3
 pydantic==2.9.2
 PyGithub>=1.58
 GitPython>=3.1.31