diff --git a/examples/instructor/pyproject.toml b/examples/instructor/pyproject.toml
index 7382d513..1f8b0ddd 100644
--- a/examples/instructor/pyproject.toml
+++ b/examples/instructor/pyproject.toml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "scikit-learn==1.3.0",
     "sentence-transformers==2.2.2",
     "torch==2.0.1+cpu",
-    "transformers==4.31.0",
+    "transformers==5.3.0",
 ]
 
 [tool.uv]