diff --git a/triton_backend/requirements.txt b/triton_backend/requirements.txt
index 4375447772cd..7fb856376c1b 100644
--- a/triton_backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/triton_backend/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 regex
 fire
 tritonclient[all]
-transformers==4.57.3
+transformers==5.0.0rc3
 pandas
 tabulate
 flash_attn