diff --git a/runtime/experimental/python/v3.11cuda/requirements.txt b/runtime/experimental/python/v3.11cuda/requirements.txt
index 6e9a964..63aa971 100644
--- a/runtime/experimental/python/v3.11cuda/requirements.txt
+++ b/runtime/experimental/python/v3.11cuda/requirements.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ minio==7.1.16
 auth0-python==4.6.0
 huggingface_hub==0.26.2
 accelerate==1.1.1
-protobuf==5.28.3
+protobuf==7.34.0rc1
 sentencepiece==0.2.0
 mistral_inference==1.5.0
 transformers==4.46.3