diff --git a/requirements/nightly_torch_test.txt b/requirements/nightly_torch_test.txt
index 8dcbe2a71..a45634d0c 100644
--- a/requirements/nightly_torch_test.txt
+++ b/requirements/nightly_torch_test.txt
@@ -43,5 +43,5 @@ tritonclient>=2.51.0
 numba == 0.61.2 # Required for N-gram speculative decoding
 numpy
 runai-model-streamer[s3,gcs]==0.15.3
-fastsafetensors>=0.1.10
+fastsafetensors>=0.2.2
 pydantic>=2.12 # 2.11 leads to error on python 3.13
diff --git a/requirements/test.in b/requirements/test.in
index e8abcc04e..8a97c0e88 100644
--- a/requirements/test.in
+++ b/requirements/test.in
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ arctic-inference == 0.1.1 # Required for suffix decoding test
 numba == 0.61.2 # Required for N-gram speculative decoding
 numpy
 runai-model-streamer[s3,gcs]==0.15.3
-fastsafetensors>=0.1.10
+fastsafetensors>=0.2.2 # 0.2.2 contains important fixes for multi-GPU mem usage
 pydantic>=2.12 # 2.11 leads to error on python 3.13
 decord==0.6.0
 terratorch @ git+https://github.com/IBM/terratorch.git@1.1.rc3 # required for PrithviMAE test
diff --git a/requirements/test.txt b/requirements/test.txt
index 9090fe3c2..fbe3228d2 100644
--- a/requirements/test.txt
+++ b/requirements/test.txt
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ fastparquet==2024.11.0
     # via genai-perf
 fastrlock==0.8.2
     # via cupy-cuda12x
-fastsafetensors==0.1.10
+fastsafetensors==0.2.2
     # via -r requirements/test.in
 filelock==3.16.1
     # via
@@ -1174,7 +1174,6 @@ torch==2.10.0+cu129
     #   bitsandbytes
     #   efficientnet-pytorch
     #   encodec
-    #   fastsafetensors
     #   kornia
     #   lightly
     #   lightning
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 14325cdfc..8dea355da 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1035,7 +1035,7 @@ setup(
     extras_require={
         "bench": ["pandas", "matplotlib", "seaborn", "datasets", "scipy"],
         "tensorizer": ["tensorizer==2.10.1"],
-        "fastsafetensors": ["fastsafetensors >= 0.1.10"],
+        "fastsafetensors": ["fastsafetensors >= 0.2.2"],
         "runai": ["runai-model-streamer[s3,gcs] >= 0.15.3"],
         "audio": [
             "librosa",