diff --git a/examples/instructor/pyproject.toml b/examples/instructor/pyproject.toml
index 7382d51..2c8fcd5 100644
--- a/examples/instructor/pyproject.toml
+++ b/examples/instructor/pyproject.toml
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ dependencies = [
     "optimum[exporters]==1.10.0",
     "scikit-learn==1.3.0",
     "sentence-transformers==2.2.2",
-    "torch==2.0.1+cpu",
+    "torch==2.8.0",
     "transformers==4.31.0",
 ]