diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 6d511810..e37b4e44 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -302,20 +302,20 @@ test = ["coverage[toml]", "ddt (>=1.1.1,!=1.4.3)", "mock", "mypy", "pre-commit",
 
 [[package]]
 name = "google-ai-generativelanguage"
-version = "0.6.6"
+version = "0.6.9"
 description = "Google Ai Generativelanguage API client library"
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.7"
 files = [
-    {file = "google-ai-generativelanguage-0.6.6.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:1739f035caeeeca5c28f887405eec8690f3372daf79fecf26454a97a4f1733a8"},
-    {file = "google_ai_generativelanguage-0.6.6-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:59297737931f073d55ce1268dcc6d95111ee62850349d2b6cde942b16a4fca5c"},
+    {file = "google_ai_generativelanguage-0.6.9-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:50360cd80015d1a8cc70952e98560f32fa06ddee2e8e9f4b4b98e431dc561e0b"},
+    {file = "google_ai_generativelanguage-0.6.9.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:899f1d3a06efa9739f1cd9d2788070178db33c89d4a76f2e8f4da76f649155fa"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
 google-api-core = {version = ">=1.34.1,<2.0.dev0 || >=2.11.dev0,<3.0.0dev", extras = ["grpc"]}
 google-auth = ">=2.14.1,<2.24.0 || >2.24.0,<2.25.0 || >2.25.0,<3.0.0dev"
 proto-plus = ">=1.22.3,<2.0.0dev"
-protobuf = ">=3.19.5,<3.20.0 || >3.20.0,<3.20.1 || >3.20.1,<4.21.0 || >4.21.0,<4.21.1 || >4.21.1,<4.21.2 || >4.21.2,<4.21.3 || >4.21.3,<4.21.4 || >4.21.4,<4.21.5 || >4.21.5,<5.0.0dev"
+protobuf = ">=3.20.2,<4.21.0 || >4.21.0,<4.21.1 || >4.21.1,<4.21.2 || >4.21.2,<4.21.3 || >4.21.3,<4.21.4 || >4.21.4,<4.21.5 || >4.21.5,<6.0.0dev"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "google-api-core"
@@ -406,16 +406,16 @@ httplib2 = ">=0.19.0"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "google-generativeai"
-version = "0.7.2"
+version = "0.8.1"
 description = "Google Generative AI High level API client library and tools."
 optional = false
 python-versions = ">=3.9"
 files = [
-    {file = "google_generativeai-0.7.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:3117d1ebc92ee77710d4bc25ab4763492fddce9b6332eb25d124cf5d8b78b339"},
+    {file = "google_generativeai-0.8.1-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b031877f24d51af0945207657c085896a0a886eceec7a1cb7029327b0aa6e2f6"},
 ]
 
 [package.dependencies]
-google-ai-generativelanguage = "0.6.6"
+google-ai-generativelanguage = "0.6.9"
 google-api-core = "*"
 google-api-python-client = "*"
 google-auth = ">=2.15.0"
@@ -1474,4 +1474,4 @@ test = ["pytest (>=6.0.0)", "setuptools (>=65)"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = "^3.10"
-content-hash = "d62a8442d0b815a1b144b7902f70d182639f536b070c99bfb9ff90d365c45806"
+content-hash = "7080735fa4b84a77712cd7a4792f1cc1066555b5ed639c2a2a5ec7880ecfd9bb"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 6b0830f9..9da9e914 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ pywinpty = { version = "^2.0.13", platform = "win32" }
 ptyprocess = { version = "^0.7.0", platform = "linux" }
 python-tkdnd = "^0.2.1"
 psutil = ">=5.9.8,<7.0.0"
-google-generativeai = "^0.7.0"
+google-generativeai = ">=0.7,<0.9"
 sortedcontainers = "^2.4.0"
 click = "^8.1.7"
 tarts = "0.14.0"