diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 8e179ab4a..1baaa7d19 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 requires-python = ">=3.8,<3.11"
 dependencies = [
-    "transformers==4.55.0",
+    "transformers==5.0.0rc0",
     "huggingface-hub==0.34.0",
     "hf_transfer==0.1.9",
     "peft==0.13.2",