diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 03a48f0..ae28664 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ pydantic-settings==2.2.1
 python-telegram-bot==21.2
 requests==2.32.2
 setuptools==70.0.0
-smart-open==6.4.0
+smart-open==7.0.4
 sniffio==1.3.1
 spacy==3.7.4
 https://github.com/explosion/spacy-models/releases/download/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1/en_core_web_sm-3.7.1-py3-none-any.whl