diff --git a/timm/models/convnext.py b/timm/models/convnext.py
index 26a3d560..b814119c 100644
--- a/timm/models/convnext.py
+++ b/timm/models/convnext.py
@@ -205,6 +205,7 @@ class ConvNeXt(nn.Module):
             use_grn=False,
             act_layer='gelu',
             norm_layer=None,
+            norm_eps=None,
             drop_rate=0.,
             drop_path_rate=0.,
     ):
@@ -236,10 +237,15 @@ class ConvNeXt(nn.Module):
         if norm_layer is None:
             norm_layer = LayerNorm2d
             norm_layer_cl = norm_layer if conv_mlp else LayerNorm
+            if norm_eps is not None:
+                norm_layer = partial(norm_layer, eps=norm_eps)
+                norm_layer_cl = partial(norm_layer_cl, eps=norm_eps)
         else:
             assert conv_mlp,\
                 'If a norm_layer is specified, conv MLP must be used so all norm expect rank-4, channels-first input'
             norm_layer_cl = norm_layer
+            if norm_eps is not None:
+                norm_layer_cl = partial(norm_layer_cl, eps=norm_eps)
 
         self.num_classes = num_classes
         self.drop_rate = drop_rate
@@ -250,7 +256,7 @@ class ConvNeXt(nn.Module):
             # NOTE: this stem is a minimal form of ViT PatchEmbed, as used in SwinTransformer w/ patch_size = 4
             self.stem = nn.Sequential(
                 nn.Conv2d(in_chans, dims[0], kernel_size=patch_size, stride=patch_size, bias=conv_bias),
-                norm_layer(dims[0])
+                norm_layer(dims[0]),
             )
             stem_stride = patch_size
         else:
@@ -376,7 +382,15 @@ def checkpoint_filter_fn(state_dict, model):
         return state_dict  # non-FB checkpoint
     if 'model' in state_dict:
         state_dict = state_dict['model']
+
     out_dict = {}
+    if 'visual.trunk.stem.0.weight' in state_dict:
+        out_dict = {k.replace('visual.trunk.', ''): v for k, v in state_dict.items() if k.startswith('visual.trunk.')}
+        if 'visual.head.proj.weight' in state_dict:
+            out_dict['head.fc.weight'] = state_dict['visual.head.proj.weight']
+            out_dict['head.fc.bias'] = torch.zeros(state_dict['visual.head.proj.weight'].shape[0])
+        return out_dict
+
     import re
     for k, v in state_dict.items():
         k = k.replace('downsample_layers.0.', 'stem.')
@@ -395,6 +409,7 @@ def checkpoint_filter_fn(state_dict, model):
             model_shape = model.state_dict()[k].shape
             v = v.reshape(model_shape)
         out_dict[k] = v
+
     return out_dict
 
 
@@ -685,6 +700,28 @@ default_cfgs = generate_default_cfgs({
         num_classes=0),
 
     'convnextv2_small.untrained': _cfg(),
+
+    # CLIP based weights, original image tower weights and fine-tunes
+    'convnext_base.clip_laion2b': _cfg(
+        hf_hub_id='laion/CLIP-convnext_base_w-laion2B-s13B-b82K',
+        hf_hub_filename='open_clip_pytorch_model.bin',
+        input_size=(3, 256, 256), crop_pct=1.0, num_classes=640),
+    'convnext_base.clip_laion2b_augreg': _cfg(
+        hf_hub_id='laion/CLIP-convnext_base_w-laion2B-s13B-b82K-augreg',
+        hf_hub_filename='open_clip_pytorch_model.bin',
+        input_size=(3, 256, 256), crop_pct=1.0, num_classes=640),
+    'convnext_base.clip_laiona': _cfg(
+        hf_hub_id='laion/CLIP-convnext_base_w-laion_aesthetic-s13B-b82K',
+        hf_hub_filename='open_clip_pytorch_model.bin',
+        input_size=(3, 256, 256), crop_pct=1.0, num_classes=640),
+    'convnext_base.clip_laiona_320': _cfg(
+        hf_hub_id='laion/CLIP-convnext_base_w_320-laion_aesthetic-s13B-b82K',
+        hf_hub_filename='open_clip_pytorch_model.bin',
+        input_size=(3, 320, 320), crop_pct=1.0, num_classes=640),
+    'convnext_base.clip_laiona_augreg_320': _cfg(
+        hf_hub_id='laion/CLIP-convnext_base_w_320-laion_aesthetic-s13B-b82K-augreg',
+        hf_hub_filename='open_clip_pytorch_model.bin',
+        input_size=(3, 320, 320), crop_pct=1.0, num_classes=640),
 })