diff --git a/ci/build_wheel.sh b/ci/build_wheel.sh
index 8632d8bc3..4f9f96d19 100755
--- a/ci/build_wheel.sh
+++ b/ci/build_wheel.sh
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ sed -r -i "s/pylibraft(.*)\"/pylibraft${PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX}\1${alpha_spec}\"/g"
 
 if [[ $PACKAGE_CUDA_SUFFIX == "-cu12" ]]; then
     sed -i "s/cuda-python[<=>\.,0-9a]*/cuda-python>=12.0,<13.0a0/g" ${pyproject_file}
+    sed -i "s/cupy-cuda11x/cupy-cuda12x/g" ${pyproject_file}
 fi
 
 cd "${package_dir}"