diff --git a/label_studio_ml/examples/huggingface_ner/requirements.txt b/label_studio_ml/examples/huggingface_ner/requirements.txt
index b3d253f0..3c8d97b3 100644
--- a/label_studio_ml/examples/huggingface_ner/requirements.txt
+++ b/label_studio_ml/examples/huggingface_ner/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-transformers==4.30.2
+transformers==5.0.0rc3
 datasets==2.18.0
 accelerate==0.28.0