diff --git a/dataflow/run-inference/requirements.txt b/dataflow/run-inference/requirements.txt
index d0376ac202e..ee5714a2b3e 100644
--- a/dataflow/run-inference/requirements.txt
+++ b/dataflow/run-inference/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 apache-beam[gcp]==2.49.0
 torch==2.2.2
-transformers==5.0.0rc3
+transformers==5.3.0
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 43c03683ccd..6820345772e 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==5.0.0",
+    "transformers==5.3.0",
 ]
 
 [project.scripts]