diff --git a/dataflow/run-inference/requirements.txt b/dataflow/run-inference/requirements.txt
index 585334e1a9b..d0376ac202e 100644
--- a/dataflow/run-inference/requirements.txt
+++ b/dataflow/run-inference/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 apache-beam[gcp]==2.49.0
 torch==2.2.2
-transformers==4.38.0
+transformers==5.0.0rc3