diff --git a/requirements/requirements_lightning.txt b/requirements/requirements_lightning.txt
index 10be5ca2954c..b2faa2680cf8 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements_lightning.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements_lightning.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ lightning>2.2.1,<=2.4.0
 omegaconf<=2.3
 peft
 torchmetrics>=0.11.0
-transformers~=4.53.0
+transformers~=5.0.0rc3
 wandb
 webdataset>=0.2.86
 nv_one_logger_core>=2.1.0
diff --git a/requirements/requirements_vllm.txt b/requirements/requirements_vllm.txt
index 01ab8adcc227..376ccc143b6e 100644
--- a/requirements/requirements_vllm.txt
+++ b/requirements/requirements_vllm.txt
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ pangu
 rouge_score
 sacrebleu
 scikit-learn
-transformers==4.53.0
+transformers==5.0.0rc3
 vllm==0.11.0
 webdataset>=0.2.86
 wget