The daughters of Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, appear to be following in their father's footsteps from an early age. Ten-year-old Max is already exploring AI-assisted coding and experimenting with her own projects. According to her mother, the girl has a natural drive to invent things and bring her ideas to life.
Priscilla Chan, co-founder and co-CEO of the philanthropic organization Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, spoke about her daughter's new interests in an interview with Colossus. She revealed that Max has already been experimenting with so-called “vibe coding” — using AI to create software by describing the desired result in everyday language.
However, some of her daughter's ideas have yet to win parental approval. “Her scope is pretty limited because Mom doesn't let her build things that are open to the entire internet. For example, she wanted to build a dating website. I said no to that,” Chan revealed.
According to Chan, the girl has developed an interest in technology entirely on her own, and her parents have never tried to deliberately encourage her to learn coding.
“She just has this innate desire to create things. We didn't teach her that — it came naturally. She gets so much joy out of the idea that she can put something new into the world,” Priscilla said.
Unlike many children her age, who spend their free time at parks, shopping malls and toy stores, the Zuckerberg girls have been introduced to Replit, Google Docs, Kano, Scratch, robotics, 3D printing and Meta AI tools from an early age.
Back in February 2022, during an interview with Lex Fridman, Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he was teaching his daughters the basics of coding using Scratch. The platform allows children to create stories, games and animations by connecting visual blocks of code. Last year, the billionaire also told The Rundown AI that he enjoys building robots with his daughters.
The family's projects go beyond coding. Zuckerberg and his daughters design device cases themselves, print them using 3D printers and use Raspberry Pi or Jetson hardware to run language models.
The couple's second daughter, August, is also particularly enthusiastic about technology. According to her parents, she is so immersed in her Minecraft and Scratch projects that she sometimes wakes up earlier than usual just to grab her tablet and carry on working.
August has also tried her hand at writing. She came up with a book titled The Mermaid Crystal, for which illustrations and a trailer were created with the help of Meta AI.
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan have previously pledged to donate 99% of their Facebook shares to charitable causes, making it clear that they do not intend to pass their fortune on to their daughters.
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