diff --git a/people-and-planet-ai/weather-forecasting/serving/weather-model/pyproject.toml b/people-and-planet-ai/weather-forecasting/serving/weather-model/pyproject.toml
index 6f6c66d33a9..f32254ad82a 100644
--- a/people-and-planet-ai/weather-forecasting/serving/weather-model/pyproject.toml
+++ b/people-and-planet-ai/weather-forecasting/serving/weather-model/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ version = "1.0.0"
 dependencies = [
     "datasets==4.0.0",
     "torch==2.8.0",  # make sure this matches the `container_uri` in `notebooks/3-training.ipynb`
-    "transformers==4.48.0",
+    "transformers==4.53.0",
 ]
 
 [project.scripts]