diff --git a/examples/81-bert-qna/requirements.txt b/examples/81-bert-qna/requirements.txt
index a7d7800bd..b67759dd3 100644
--- a/examples/81-bert-qna/requirements.txt
+++ b/examples/81-bert-qna/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 falcon==2.0.0
-transformers==2.11.0
+transformers==4.30.0
 numpy==1.22.0
 requests==2.31.0
 tqdm==4.41.1