diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 6c9b811cea..3a1fe44421 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ requests
 tabulate
 git+https://github.com/huggingface/pytorch-image-models.git@730b907
 # this version of transformers is required as per this page https://huggingface.co/mistralai/Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.1
-transformers==4.36.0
+transformers==4.38.1
 MonkeyType
 psutil
 pyyaml