diff --git a/spacy/compat.py b/spacy/compat.py
index 31b33e771..8dd3d6b03 100644
--- a/spacy/compat.py
+++ b/spacy/compat.py
@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ except ImportError:
     cupy = None
 
 try:
-    from thinc.optimizers import Optimizer
+    from thinc.neural.optimizers import Optimizer
 except ImportError:
-    from thinc.optimizers import Adam as Optimizer
+    from thinc.neural.optimizers import Adam as Optimizer
 
 pickle = pickle
 copy_reg = copy_reg