diff --git a/crates/octo-whatsapp/Cargo.toml b/crates/octo-whatsapp/Cargo.toml
index 7efe68d9..db375bc6 100644
--- a/crates/octo-whatsapp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/octo-whatsapp/Cargo.toml
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ stoolap             = { git = "https://github.com/CipherOcto/stoolap", branch =
 tantivy             = { version = "0.24", optional = true }
 candle-core         = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
 candle-nn           = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
-candle-transformers = { version = "0.9", optional = true }
+candle-transformers = { version = "0.11", optional = true }
 tokenizers          = { version = "0.22", optional = true }
 hf-hub              = { version = "0.4", optional = true }
 # Minimal single-thread executor for the embedder worker (no tokio