diff --git a/inference/models/yolo_world/yolo_world.py b/inference/models/yolo_world/yolo_world.py
index a5d790440..f300b7515 100644
--- a/inference/models/yolo_world/yolo_world.py
+++ b/inference/models/yolo_world/yolo_world.py
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import clip
 import numpy as np
 import torch
-from ultralytics import YOLO
+from ultralytics import YOLO, settings
 
 from inference.core import logger
 from inference.core.cache import cache
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@
 EMBEDDINGS_EXPIRE_TIMEOUT = 1800  # 30 min
 
 
+settings.update({"sync": False})
+settings.reset()
+
+
 class YOLOWorld(RoboflowCoreModel):
     """YOLO-World class for zero-shot object detection.