diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 73a8010..a3a7b58 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ timm==1.0.0
 # --- NLP & Vector Search ---
 tokenizers==0.19.0
 faiss-cpu==1.8.0
-datasets==2.14.0  # Successor to 'nlp' package
+datasets==5.0.1  # Successor to 'nlp' package
 
 # --- Hugging Face Ecosystem ---
 huggingface-hub==0.24.0