diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 42268ee..e96f7b9 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ name = "aingle_ai"
 version = "0.7.2"
 dependencies = [
  "blake2",
- "candle-core 0.9.2",
+ "candle-core 0.11.0",
  "candle-nn",
  "chrono",
  "criterion",
@@ -1458,14 +1458,15 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "candle-core"
-version = "0.9.2"
+version = "0.11.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c15b675b80d994b2eadb20a4bbe434eabeb454eac3ee5e2b4cf6f147ee9be091"
+checksum = "5ecb245093b0f791b89d3420c3df9c6d49c60ab63ba54db896bf8a3baf486706"
 dependencies = [
  "byteorder",
  "float8",
  "gemm 0.19.0",
  "half",
+ "libc",
  "libm",
  "memmap2 0.9.10",
  "num-traits",
@@ -1473,10 +1474,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "rand 0.9.2",
  "rand_distr 0.5.1",
  "rayon",
- "safetensors 0.7.0",
+ "safetensors 0.8.0",
  "thiserror 2.0.18",
+ "tokenizers",
  "yoke 0.8.1",
- "zip 7.2.0",
+ "zerocopy",
+ "zip 8.6.0",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -3203,9 +3206,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "float8"
-version = "0.6.1"
+version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "719a903cc23e4a89e87962c2a80fdb45cdaad0983a89bd150bb57b4c8571a7d5"
+checksum = "c2d1f04709a8ac06e8e8042875a3c466cc4832d3c1a18dbcb9dba3c6e83046bc"
 dependencies = [
  "half",
  "num-traits",
@@ -6851,17 +6854,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde_json",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "safetensors"
-version = "0.7.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "675656c1eabb620b921efea4f9199f97fc86e36dd6ffd1fbbe48d0f59a4987f5"
-dependencies = [
- "hashbrown 0.16.1",
- "serde",
- "serde_json",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "safetensors"
 version = "0.8.0"
@@ -9646,9 +9638,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "zip"
-version = "7.2.0"
+version = "8.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c42e33efc22a0650c311c2ef19115ce232583abbe80850bc8b66509ebef02de0"
+checksum = "2d04a6b5381502aa6087c94c669499eb1602eb9c5e8198e534de571f7154809b"
 dependencies = [
  "crc32fast",
  "indexmap",
diff --git a/crates/aingle_ai/Cargo.toml b/crates/aingle_ai/Cargo.toml
index b29f9c4..2be6eba 100644
--- a/crates/aingle_ai/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/aingle_ai/Cargo.toml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ toml = "0.9"
 
 # Optional: Full ML capabilities (disabled by default for IoT)
 [dependencies.candle-core]
-version = "0.9"
+version = "0.11"
 optional = true
 
 [dependencies.candle-nn]