diff --git a/harness/tests/requirements/requirements-harness.txt b/harness/tests/requirements/requirements-harness.txt
index 4e3d4665d31..7cdd54d604e 100644
--- a/harness/tests/requirements/requirements-harness.txt
+++ b/harness/tests/requirements/requirements-harness.txt
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ mypy==0.910
 responses!=0.23.2
 requests_mock
 coverage
-deepspeed==0.8.3
+deepspeed==0.15.1
 # lightning not tested but required for linter checks
 lightning
 transformers>=4.8.2,<4.29.0