diff --git a/packages/jupyter-ai/jupyter_ai/chat_handlers/base.py b/packages/jupyter-ai/jupyter_ai/chat_handlers/base.py
index 8fde45e4e..bcbba00ba 100644
--- a/packages/jupyter-ai/jupyter_ai/chat_handlers/base.py
+++ b/packages/jupyter-ai/jupyter_ai/chat_handlers/base.py
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@
 from jupyter_ai_magics.providers import BaseProvider
 from langchain.pydantic_v1 import BaseModel
 
-# necessary to prevent circular import
-from pydantic import BaseModel
-
 if TYPE_CHECKING:
     from jupyter_ai.handlers import RootChatHandler