torch_cpu.dll not found on Windows

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After a simple spacy installation (following directions from the Install Spacy site):

python -m venv .env
.env\Scripts\activate
pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
pip install -U spacy
python -m spacy download en_core_web_trf

I tried to run my script (which works great on Linux) and I got the following stacktrace. I've tried a bunch of different variants - installing in a conda environment (still using pip), installing with spacy[transformers], manually reinstalling torch, but they all end up the same way. What am I missing?

[uphill-ai]

Here's my environment (python 3.12.1 from Anaconda):

[uphill-ai]

Downgrading torch to 2.3.0 seems to have worked. Others online have mentioned convoluted solutions involving either a full or partial install of VS 2022 or a sketchy download and install of libomp140.x86_64.dll. The latest pytorch for Windows (2.4.0 - cpu-only version) seems to have picked up this dependency that can't be easily satisfied.