diff --git a/.ci/docker/requirements-ci.txt b/.ci/docker/requirements-ci.txt
index f25d340fdb3..3c2127dd196 100644
--- a/.ci/docker/requirements-ci.txt
+++ b/.ci/docker/requirements-ci.txt
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ sympy>=1.13.3
 timm==0.6.13
 tomli==2.0.1
 torchsr==1.0.4
-transformers==4.56.1
+transformers>=5.0.0
 zstd==1.5.5.1
 pandas>=2.2.2; python_version >= '3.10'
 pytest==7.2.0
diff --git a/requirements-examples.txt b/requirements-examples.txt
index 415e4101312..39a917e3b84 100644
--- a/requirements-examples.txt
+++ b/requirements-examples.txt
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ datasets == 3.6.0 # 4.0.0 deprecates trust_remote_code and load scripts. For now
 timm == 1.0.7
 torchsr == 1.0.4
 torchtune >= 0.6.1
-transformers == 5.0.0rc1
+transformers >= 5.0.0