diff --git a/requirements/requirements-convert.txt b/requirements/requirements-convert.txt
index a3d6ecec0..5520ba732 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements-convert.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements-convert.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 numpy~=1.24.4
 sentencepiece~=0.1.98
-transformers>=4.35.2,<5.0.0
+transformers>=4.40.1,<5.0.0
 gguf>=0.1.0
 protobuf>=4.21.0,<5.0.0