diff --git a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/pom.xml b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/pom.xml
index badd291..2912a25 100644
--- a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/pom.xml
+++ b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/pom.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     <properties>
         <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
         <java.version>21</java.version>
-        <spring-ai.version>1.0.0-M1</spring-ai.version>
+        <spring-ai.version>1.0.0-M2</spring-ai.version>
         <spotless.version>2.43.0</spotless.version>
     </properties>
 
diff --git a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/main/resources/application.properties b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/main/resources/application.properties
index f101a2d..a7af636 100644
--- a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/main/resources/application.properties
+++ b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/main/resources/application.properties
@@ -5,9 +5,13 @@ spring.ai.openai.base-url=http://langchain4j.dev/demo/openai
 spring.ai.openai.image.enabled=false
 spring.ai.openai.chat.options.temperature=0.2
 spring.ai.openai.chat.options.model=gpt-4o-mini
-spring.ai.openai.chat.options.responseFormat=json_object
+##FIXME
+#spring.ai.openai.chat.options.responseFormat=json_object
 spring.ai.openai.embedding.options.model=text-embedding-3-small
 
+# only for demo purpose
+spring.ai.vectorstore.neo4j.initialize-schema=true
+
 spring.threads.virtual.enabled=true
 
 
diff --git a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/test/java/com/learning/ai/TestNeo4jVectorEmbeddingStoreExample.java b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/test/java/com/learning/ai/TestNeo4jVectorEmbeddingStoreExample.java
index 624651f..172ac60 100644
--- a/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/test/java/com/learning/ai/TestNeo4jVectorEmbeddingStoreExample.java
+++ b/embeddingstores/neo4j-springai/src/test/java/com/learning/ai/TestNeo4jVectorEmbeddingStoreExample.java
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ public class TestNeo4jVectorEmbeddingStoreExample {
     @Bean
     @ServiceConnection
     Neo4jContainer<?> neo4jContainer() {
-        return new Neo4jContainer<>(DockerImageName.parse("neo4j:5")).withLabsPlugins("apoc");
+        return new Neo4jContainer<>(DockerImageName.parse("neo4j:5")).withPlugins("apoc");
     }
 
     public static void main(String[] args) {