diff --git a/examples/llm/slimpajama/data/download.py b/examples/llm/slimpajama/data/download.py
index 813677698719..477854cb56d5 100644
--- a/examples/llm/slimpajama/data/download.py
+++ b/examples/llm/slimpajama/data/download.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ def download_slimpajama(include_pattern: str = "", exclude_pattern: str = ""):
     download_script = """
 pip install "huggingface_hub[cli,hf_transfer]"
 
-huggingface-cli download openai-community/gpt2 vocab.json merges.text --local-dir /data/bpe
+huggingface-cli download openai-community/gpt2 vocab.json merges.txt --local-dir /data/bpe
 
 retry_command() {
     local max_retries=$1