diff --git a/distributed/minGPT-ddp/requirements.txt b/distributed/minGPT-ddp/requirements.txt
index 03872eca88..6e8e13981b 100644
--- a/distributed/minGPT-ddp/requirements.txt
+++ b/distributed/minGPT-ddp/requirements.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-torch>=1.11.0
+torch>=2.8.0
 fsspec
 boto3
 hydra-core