diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 4563b4dfb8..6193fdc6b4 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
     'mosaicml[libcloud,wandb,oci,gcs,mlflow]>=0.23.4,<0.24',
     'mlflow>=2.14.1,<2.15',
     'accelerate>=0.25,<0.33',  # for HF inference `device_map`
-    'transformers>=4.43.1,<4.44',
+    'transformers>=4.43.2,<4.44',
     'mosaicml-streaming>=0.7.6,<0.8',
     'torch>=2.3.0,<2.4',
     'datasets>=2.19,<2.20',