diff --git a/tensorflow_similarity/architectures/__init__.py b/tensorflow_similarity/architectures/__init__.py
index f2dc3b1a..79ab603c 100644
--- a/tensorflow_similarity/architectures/__init__.py
+++ b/tensorflow_similarity/architectures/__init__.py
@@ -16,3 +16,8 @@
 from .efficientnet import EfficientNetSim  # noqa
 from .resnet18 import ResNet18Sim  # noqa
 from .resnet50 import ResNet50Sim  # noqa
+
+try:
+    from .convnext import ConvNeXtSim  # noqa
+except ImportError:
+    print("Warning: ConvNeXtSim not imported. This requires TensorFlow 2.10 or higher.")
diff --git a/tensorflow_similarity/architectures/convnext.py b/tensorflow_similarity/architectures/convnext.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3e02153f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tensorflow_similarity/architectures/convnext.py
@@ -0,0 +1,143 @@
+# Copyright 2021 The TensorFlow Authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+"ConvNeXt backbone for similarity learning"
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import re
+
+import tensorflow as tf
+from tensorflow.keras import layers
+from tensorflow.keras.applications import convnext
+
+from tensorflow_similarity.layers import GeneralizedMeanPooling2D, MetricEmbedding
+from tensorflow_similarity.models import SimilarityModel
+
+CONVNEXT_ARCHITECTURE = {
+    "TINY": convnext.ConvNeXtTiny,
+    "SMALL": convnext.ConvNeXtSmall,
+    "BASE": convnext.ConvNeXtBase,
+    "LARGE": convnext.ConvNeXtLarge,
+    "XLARGE": convnext.ConvNeXtXLarge,
+}
+
+
+def ConvNeXtSim(
+    input_shape: tuple[int, int, int],
+    embedding_size: int = 128,
+    variant: str = "BASE",
+    weights: str = "imagenet",
+    trainable: str = "frozen",
+    l2_norm: bool = True,
+    include_top: bool = True,
+    pooling: str = "gem",
+    gem_p: float = 3.0,
+) -> SimilarityModel:
+    """ "Build an ConvNeXt Model backbone for similarity learning
+    [A ConvNet for the 2020s](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.03545.pdf)
+     Args:
+        input_shape: Size of the input image. Must match size of ConvNeXt version you use.
+        See below for version input size.
+        embedding_size: Size of the output embedding. Usually between 64
+        and 512. Defaults to 128.
+        variant: Which Variant of the ConvNeXt to use. Defaults to "BASE".
+        weights: Use pre-trained weights - the only available currently being
+        imagenet. Defaults to "imagenet".
+        trainable: Make the ConvNeXt backbone fully trainable or partially
+        trainable.
+        - "full" to make the entire backbone trainable,
+        - "partial" to only make the last 3 block trainable
+        - "frozen" to make it not trainable.
+        l2_norm: If True and include_top is also True, then
+        tfsim.layers.MetricEmbedding is used as the last layer, otherwise
+        keras.layers.Dense is used. This should be true when using cosine
+        distance. Defaults to True.
+        include_top: Whether to include the fully-connected layer at the top
+        of the network. Defaults to True.
+        pooling: Optional pooling mode for feature extraction when
+        include_top is False. Defaults to gem.
+        - None means that the output of the model will be the 4D tensor
+          output of the last convolutional layer.
+        - avg means that global average pooling will be applied to the
+          output of the last convolutional layer, and thus the output of the
+          model will be a 2D tensor.
+        - max means that global max pooling will be applied.
+        - gem means that global GeneralizedMeanPooling2D will be applied.
+          The gem_p param sets the contrast amount on the pooling.
+        gem_p: Sets the power in the GeneralizedMeanPooling2D layer. A value
+        of 1.0 is equivalent to GlobalMeanPooling2D, while larger values
+        will increase the contrast between activations within each feature
+        map, and a value of math.inf will be equivalent to MaxPool2d.
+    """
+    inputs = layers.Input(shape=input_shape)
+    x = inputs
+
+    if variant not in CONVNEXT_ARCHITECTURE:
+        raise ValueError("Unknown ConvNeXt variant. Valid TINY BASE LARGE SMALL XLARGE")
+
+    x = build_convnext(variant, weights, trainable)(x)
+
+    if pooling == "gem":
+        x = GeneralizedMeanPooling2D(p=gem_p, name="gem_pool")(x)
+    elif pooling == "avg":
+        x = layers.GlobalAveragePooling2D(name="avg_pool")(x)
+    elif pooling == "max":
+        x = layers.GlobalMaxPooling2D(name="max_pool")(x)
+
+    if include_top and pooling is not None:
+        if l2_norm:
+            outputs = MetricEmbedding(embedding_size)(x)
+        else:
+            outputs = layers.Dense(embedding_size)(x)
+    else:
+        outputs = x
+
+    return SimilarityModel(inputs, outputs)
+
+
+def build_convnext(variant: str, weights: str | None = None, trainable: str = "full") -> tf.keras.Model:
+    """Build the requested ConvNeXt
+
+    Args:
+        variant: Which Variant of the ConvNeXt to use.
+        weights: Use pre-trained weights - the only available currently being
+        imagenet.
+        trainable: Make the ConvNeXt backbone fully trainable or partially
+        trainable.
+        - "full" to make the entire backbone trainable,
+        - "partial" to only make the last 3 block trainable
+        - "frozen" to make it not trainable.
+    Returns:
+        The output layer of the convnext model
+    """
+    convnext_fn = CONVNEXT_ARCHITECTURE[variant.upper()]
+    convnext = convnext_fn(weights=weights, include_top=False)
+
+    if trainable == "full":
+        convnext.trainable = True
+    elif trainable == "partial":
+        convnext.trainable = True
+        for layer in convnext.layers:
+            # freeze all layeres befor the last 3 blocks
+            if not re.search("^block[5,6,7]|^top", layer.name):
+                layer.trainable = False
+    elif trainable == "frozen":
+        convnext.trainable = False
+    else:
+        raise ValueError(f"{trainable} is not a supported option for 'trainable'.")
+
+    if weights:
+        for layer in convnext.layers:
+            if isinstance(layer, layers.experimental.SyncBatchNormalization):
+                layer.trainable = False
+    return convnext
diff --git a/tests/architectures/test_convnext.py b/tests/architectures/test_convnext.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f63edeee
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/architectures/test_convnext.py
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+import re
+
+import pytest
+import tensorflow as tf
+
+
+MIN_TF_MAJOR_VERSION = 2
+MIN_TF_MINOR_VERSION = 10
+
+major_version = tf.__version__.split(".")[0]
+minor_version = tf.__version__.split(".")[1]
+
+convneXt = pytest.importorskip("tensorflow_similarity.architectures.convnext")
+
+TF_MAJOR_VERSION = int(tf.__version__.split(".")[0])
+TF_MINOR_VERSION = int(tf.__version__.split(".")[1])
+
+
+def tf_version_check(major_version, minor_version):
+    if TF_MAJOR_VERSION <= major_version and TF_MINOR_VERSION < minor_version:
+        return True
+
+    return False
+
+
+def test_build_convnext_tiny_full():
+    input_layer = tf.keras.layers.Input((224, 224, 3))
+    output = convneXt.build_convnext("tiny", "imagenet", "full")(input_layer)
+
+    convnext = output._keras_history.layer
+    assert convnext.name == "convnext_tiny"
+    assert convnext.trainable
+
+    total_layer_count = 0
+    trainable_layer_count = 0
+    for layer in convnext._self_tracked_trackables:
+        total_layer_count += 1
+        if layer.trainable:
+            trainable_layer_count += 1
+
+    expected_total_layer_count = 151
+    expected_trainable_layer_count = 151
+
+    assert total_layer_count == expected_total_layer_count
+    assert trainable_layer_count == expected_trainable_layer_count
+
+
+def test_build_convnext_small_partial():
+    input_layer = tf.keras.layers.Input((224, 224, 3))
+    output = convneXt.build_convnext("small", "imagenet", "partial")(input_layer)
+
+    convnext = output._keras_history.layer
+    assert convnext.name == "convnext_small"
+    assert convnext.trainable
+
+    total_layer_count = 0
+    trainable_layer_count = 0
+    for layer in convnext._self_tracked_trackables:
+        total_layer_count += 1
+        if layer.trainable:
+            trainable_layer_count += 1
+
+    expected_total_layer_count = 295
+    expected_trainable_layer_count = 0
+
+    assert total_layer_count == expected_total_layer_count
+    assert trainable_layer_count == expected_trainable_layer_count
+
+
+def test_build_convnext_base_frozen():
+    input_layer = tf.keras.layers.Input((224, 224, 3))
+    output = convneXt.build_convnext("base", "imagenet", "frozen")(input_layer)
+
+    convnext = output._keras_history.layer
+    assert convnext.name == "convnext_base"
+    assert not convnext.trainable
+
+    total_layer_count = 0
+    trainable_layer_count = 0
+    for layer in convnext._self_tracked_trackables:
+        total_layer_count += 1
+        if layer.trainable:
+            trainable_layer_count += 1
+
+    expected_total_layer_count = 295
+    expected_trainable_layer_count = 0
+
+    assert total_layer_count == expected_total_layer_count
+    assert trainable_layer_count == expected_trainable_layer_count
+
+
+def test_build_convnext_large_full():
+    input_layer = tf.keras.layers.Input((224, 224, 3))
+    output = convneXt.build_convnext("large", "imagenet", "full")(input_layer)
+
+    convnext = output._keras_history.layer
+    assert convnext.name == "convnext_large"
+    assert convnext.trainable
+
+    total_layer_count = 0
+    trainable_layer_count = 0
+    for layer in convnext._self_tracked_trackables:
+        total_layer_count += 1
+        if layer.trainable:
+            trainable_layer_count += 1
+
+    expected_total_layer_count = 295
+    expected_trainable_layer_count = 295
+
+    assert total_layer_count == expected_total_layer_count
+    assert trainable_layer_count == expected_trainable_layer_count