diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c2cf4ae9e..54208bd22 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ exclude = ["images*"]
 [project.optional-dependencies]
 huggingface = [
     "tyro",
-    "transformers>=4.38.2",
+    "transformers>=4.42.3",
     "datasets>=2.16.0",
     "sentencepiece>=0.2.0",
     "tqdm",