diff --git a/backend/requirements.txt b/backend/requirements.txt
index 4c278f2..c281bcd 100644
--- a/backend/requirements.txt
+++ b/backend/requirements.txt
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ openai==1.48.0
 sentence-transformers==2.7.0
 # spacy==3.5.4
 # coreferee==1.4.0
-transformers==4.44.2
+transformers==5.0.0rc3
 # Let pip resolve compatible versions automatically
 torch
 torchaudio