diff --git a/gemma2/requirements.txt b/gemma2/requirements.txt
index f8990233d3f..5d98fb39628 100644
--- a/gemma2/requirements.txt
+++ b/gemma2/requirements.txt
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 google-cloud-aiplatform[all]==1.64.0
-protobuf==5.29.5
+protobuf==6.33.5