diff --git a/lmms_eval/tasks/mmmu/_default_template_yaml b/lmms_eval/tasks/mmmu/_default_template_yaml
index a53675347..1b1e202b4 100644
--- a/lmms_eval/tasks/mmmu/_default_template_yaml
+++ b/lmms_eval/tasks/mmmu/_default_template_yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 generation_kwargs:
-  max_new_tokens: 16
+  max_new_tokens: 1024
 
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   version: 0.0