diff --git a/ci/build_test_OnCommit.groovy b/ci/build_test_OnCommit.groovy
index 5573d55ce6..2153e12c17 100644
--- a/ci/build_test_OnCommit.groovy
+++ b/ci/build_test_OnCommit.groovy
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ pipeline {
               }
               if (git_diff =~ /(\n|^)(demos\/common\/export_models\/|prepare_llm_models\.sh$)/) {
                   export_models_changed = "true"
+                  image_build_needed = "true"
               }
               if (git_diff =~ /src|third_party|external|ci|test_install_ovms_service_windows\\.py|\.c|\.h|\.bazel|\.bzl|BUILD|versions\.mk|WORKSPACE|\.bat|\.groovy/) {
                   win_image_build_needed = "true"
diff --git a/demos/common/export_models/requirements.txt b/demos/common/export_models/requirements.txt
index 54c76788cf..b85c49ac2b 100644
--- a/demos/common/export_models/requirements.txt
+++ b/demos/common/export_models/requirements.txt
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 --extra-index-url "https://download.pytorch.org/whl/cpu"
 --extra-index-url "https://storage.openvinotoolkit.org/simple/wheels/nightly"
 --extra-index-url "https://storage.openvinotoolkit.org/simple/wheels/pre-release"
-optimum-intel@git+https://github.com/huggingface/optimum-intel.git@fd9499006ef4c3f35d5c6647851b2e9fa8711912
+optimum-intel@git+https://github.com/huggingface/optimum-intel.git@46b8d802e64121faa6fc26927c1d30e25b507f23
 accelerate
 datasets
 diffusers  # for image generation
 einops
 nncf
 numpy
-openvino-tokenizers==2026.4.0.dev20260730
-openvino==2026.4.0.dev20260730
+openvino-tokenizers==2026.4.0rc1
+openvino==2026.4.0rc1
 pillow
 sentence_transformers==5.3.0
 sentencepiece  # Required by: transformers`