ELIXR-C

Closed weights Google,Northwestern Medicine,Apollo Radiology International September 2023

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Google,Northwestern Medicine,Apollo Radiology International
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America, India
Published
7 September 2023
Authors
Shawn Xu, Lin Yang, Christopher Kelly, Marcin Sieniek, Timo Kohlberger, Martin Ma, Wei-Hung Weng, Atilla Kiraly, Sahar Kazemzadeh, Zakkai Melamed, Jungyeon Park, Patricia Strachan, Yun Liu, Chuck Lau, Preeti Singh, Christina Chen, Mozziyar Etemadi, Sreenivasa Raju Kalidindi, Yossi Matias, Katherine Chou, Greg S. Corrado, Shravya Shetty, Daniel Tse, Shruthi Prabhakara, Daniel Golden, Rory Pilgrim, …

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Vision, Medicine
Task
Image embedding, Semantic search, Image classification
Base model
EfficientNet-L2,CXR Foundation

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
ELIXR: Towards a general purpose X-ray artificial intelligence system through alignment of large language models and radiology vision encoders
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

Where it came from

ELIXR-C was published by Google,Northwestern Medicine,Apollo Radiology International, in United States of America, in September 2023. industry is the category the publisher falls under.

It works in Vision, Medicine, and is recorded as doing image embedding, Semantic search, Image classification.

It builds on EfficientNet-L2,CXR Foundation, which is why it shares that model's general shape and size.

Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.

Answers

ELIXR-C — common questions

01

How many parameters does ELIXR-C have?

No parameter count has been published for ELIXR-C, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

02

Who created ELIXR-C?

ELIXR-C was published by Google,Northwestern Medicine,Apollo Radiology International, based in United States of America, categorised as industry.

03

When was ELIXR-C released?

ELIXR-C was published in September 2023. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

04

What is ELIXR-C used for?

ELIXR-C works in Vision, Medicine, and is recorded as handling image embedding, Semantic search, Image classification. A model can carry several of each, so these are the areas it was built for rather than a limit on what it will attempt.

05

What GPU do I need to run ELIXR-C?

None. ELIXR-C is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

06

Is ELIXR-C open source?

The licensing for ELIXR-C was never recorded in our source data. We treat unstated licensing as closed, because an unrecorded licence is not one to rely on.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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