diff --git a/instrumentation-genai/opentelemetry-instrumentation-vertexai/pyproject.toml b/instrumentation-genai/opentelemetry-instrumentation-vertexai/pyproject.toml
index 5502c1d348..fba9c63667 100644
--- a/instrumentation-genai/opentelemetry-instrumentation-vertexai/pyproject.toml
+++ b/instrumentation-genai/opentelemetry-instrumentation-vertexai/pyproject.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,9 @@ classifiers = [
 dependencies = [
   "opentelemetry-api ~= 1.28",
   "opentelemetry-instrumentation ~= 0.58b0",
-  "opentelemetry-util-genai == 0.1b0.dev",
+  # TODO https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-python-contrib/issues/3786: restrict
+  # version after the first release
+  "opentelemetry-util-genai",
   "opentelemetry-semantic-conventions ~= 0.58b0",
 ]