diff --git a/libs/core/langchain_core/stores.py b/libs/core/langchain_core/stores.py
index f119207f3764e..bae5adc2b8ef4 100644
--- a/libs/core/langchain_core/stores.py
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 K = TypeVar("K")
-V = TypeVar("V", covariant=True)
+V = TypeVar("V")
 
 
 class BaseStore(Generic[K, V], ABC):
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-
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 win32 = ["pywin32"]
 
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 sqlcipher = ["sqlcipher3-binary"]
 
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diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index cb53473899ad9..fb7c5978614b6 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ codespell = "^2.2.0"
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diff --git a/templates/rag-chroma-multi-modal/README.md b/templates/rag-chroma-multi-modal/README.md
index 52d2126a0d00c..55aea72b9a6ad 100644
--- a/templates/rag-chroma-multi-modal/README.md
+++ b/templates/rag-chroma-multi-modal/README.md
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ You can select different options (see results [here](https://github.com/mlfounda
 
 The first time you run the app, it will automatically download the multimodal embedding model.
 
-By default, LangChain will use an embedding model with strong performance, `ViT-H-14`.
+By default, LangChain will use an embedding model with reasonably strong performance, `ViT-H-14`.
 
 You can choose alternative `OpenCLIPEmbeddings` models in `rag_chroma_multi_modal/ingest.py`:
 ```
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