diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index f697be521..bcfa4c287 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ jobs:
             pip install opentelemetry-api==1.25.0
             pip install opentelemetry-sdk==1.25.0
             pip install opentelemetry-exporter-otlp==1.25.0
-            pip install openai==1.34.0
+            pip install openai==1.40.0
             pip install prisma==0.11.0   
             pip install "detect_secrets==1.5.0"         
             pip install "httpx==0.24.1"
diff --git a/litellm/tests/test_completion.py b/litellm/tests/test_completion.py
index 7450824f5..a5fd63e92 100644
--- a/litellm/tests/test_completion.py
+++ b/litellm/tests/test_completion.py
@@ -4092,7 +4092,7 @@ def test_completion_gemini(model):
         if "InternalServerError" in str(e):
             pass
         else:
-            pytest.fail(f"Error occurred: {e}")
+            pytest.fail(f"Error occurred:{e}")
 
 
 # test_completion_gemini()