diff --git a/research/requirements.txt b/research/requirements.txt
index 7ac1c28..900a40d 100644
--- a/research/requirements.txt
+++ b/research/requirements.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ tqdm==4.67.0
 uvicorn==0.32.0
 xformers==0.0.27.post2
 pydantic==2.9.2
-protobuf==5.28.3
+protobuf==7.34.0rc1
 tiktoken==0.7.0
 openai==1.54.3
 triton==3.0.0