diff --git a/pkgs/development/python-modules/txtai/default.nix b/pkgs/development/python-modules/txtai/default.nix
index 7b08166e1d56..75b50c223a19 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/python-modules/txtai/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/python-modules/txtai/default.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   buildPythonPackage,
   pythonOlder,
   fetchFromGitHub,
+  setuptools,
   # propagated build input
   faiss,
   torch,
@@ -47,18 +48,32 @@
   openpyxl,
   requests,
   xmltodict,
+  pgvector,
+  sqlite-vec,
+  python-multipart,
   # native check inputs
-  unittestCheckHook,
-
-  pythonAtLeast,
+  pytestCheckHook,
+  # check inputs
+  httpx,
+  msgpack,
+  sqlalchemy,
 }:
 let
-  version = "7.3.0";
+  version = "7.4.0";
   api = [
     aiohttp
     fastapi
+    pillow
+    python-multipart
     uvicorn
   ];
+  ann = [
+    annoy
+    hnswlib
+    pgvector
+    sqlalchemy
+    sqlite-vec
+  ];
   # cloud = [ apache-libcloud ];
   console = [ rich ];
 
@@ -124,10 +139,11 @@ let
     requests
     xmltodict
   ];
-  all = api ++ console ++ database ++ graph ++ model ++ pipeline ++ similarity ++ workflow;
+  all = api ++ ann ++ console ++ database ++ graph ++ model ++ pipeline ++ similarity ++ workflow;
 
   optional-dependencies = {
     inherit
+      ann
       api
       console
       database
@@ -147,7 +163,8 @@ in
 buildPythonPackage {
   pname = "txtai";
   inherit version;
-  format = "setuptools";
+  pyproject = true;
+
 
   disabled = pythonOlder "3.8";
 
@@ -155,16 +172,17 @@ buildPythonPackage {
     owner = "neuml";
     repo = "txtai";
     rev = "refs/tags/v${version}";
-    hash = "sha256-tnM6ye0Sxh8P2bm3awE72GvXEY0gXX1Sv+wPr77wRGU=";
+    hash = "sha256-DQB12mFUMsKJ8cACowI1Vc7k2n1npdTOQknRmHd5EIM=";
   };
 
+  buildTools = [ setuptools ];
 
   pythonRemoveDeps = [
     # We call it faiss, not faiss-cpu.
     "faiss-cpu"
   ];
 
-  propagatedBuildInputs = [
+  dependencies = [
     faiss
     torch
     transformers
@@ -176,23 +194,52 @@ buildPythonPackage {
 
   optional-dependencies = optional-dependencies;
 
-  pythonImportsCheck = [ "txtai" ];
-
-  # some tests hang forever
-  doCheck = false;
-
-  preCheck = ''
-    export TRANSFORMERS_CACHE=$(mktemp -d)
+  # The Python imports check runs huggingface-hub which needs a writable directory.
+  #  `pythonImportsCheck` runs in the installPhase (before checkPhase).
+  preInstall = ''
+    export HF_HOME=$(mktemp -d)
   '';
 
-  nativeCheckInputs = [
-    unittestCheckHook
-  ] ++ optional-dependencies.api ++ optional-dependencies.similarity;
+  pythonImportsCheck = [ "txtai" ];
 
-  unittestFlagsArray = [
-    "-s"
-    "test/python"
-    "-v"
+  nativeCheckInputs = [
+    pytestCheckHook
+  ] ++ optional-dependencies.ann ++ optional-dependencies.api ++ optional-dependencies.similarity;
+
+  checkInputs = [
+    httpx
+    msgpack
+    python-multipart
+    sqlalchemy
+  ];
+
+  # The deselected paths depend on the huggingface hub and should be run as a passthru test
+  # disabledTestPaths won't work as the problem is with the classes containing the tests
+  # (in other words, it fails on __init__)
+  pytestFlagsArray = [
+    "test/python/test*.py"
+    "--deselect=test/python/testcloud.py"
+    "--deselect=test/python/testconsole.py"
+    "--deselect=test/python/testembeddings.py"
+    "--deselect=test/python/testgraph.py"
+    "--deselect=test/python/testapi/testembeddings.py"
+    "--deselect=test/python/testapi/testpipelines.py"
+    "--deselect=test/python/testapi/testworkflow.py"
+    "--deselect=test/python/testdatabase/testclient.py"
+    "--deselect=test/python/testdatabase/testduckdb.py"
+    "--deselect=test/python/testdatabase/testencoder.py"
+    "--deselect=test/python/testworkflow.py"
+  ];
+
+  disabledTests = [
+    # Hardcoded paths
+    "testInvalidTar"
+    "testInvalidZip"
+    # Downloads from Huggingface
+    "testPipeline"
+    # Not finding sqlite-vec despite being supplied
+    "testSQLite"
+    "testSQLiteCustom"
   ];
 
   meta = {
@@ -201,7 +248,5 @@ buildPythonPackage {
     homepage = "https://github.com/neuml/txtai";
     license = lib.licenses.asl20;
     maintainers = with lib.maintainers; [ happysalada ];
-    # This should be addressed in a newer version, but we first need to wait for python311Packages.faiss to be updated
-    broken = pythonAtLeast "3.12";
   };
 }