diff --git a/platforms/gke/base/use-cases/inference-ref-arch/examples/llmd/initialize/src/requirements.txt b/platforms/gke/base/use-cases/inference-ref-arch/examples/llmd/initialize/src/requirements.txt
index 396b79b61..cfef06a6a 100644
--- a/platforms/gke/base/use-cases/inference-ref-arch/examples/llmd/initialize/src/requirements.txt
+++ b/platforms/gke/base/use-cases/inference-ref-arch/examples/llmd/initialize/src/requirements.txt
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 gradio==6.2.0
 httpx==0.28.1
-requests==2.32.5
+requests==2.33.0
 thejsonlogger==0.0.3