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Announcements list concrete tools and outcomes: messenger api for instagram goes public; a researcher api provides privacy‑protected real‑time access to public pages/groups/events; WhatsApp adds list messages, reply buttons, carts, a five‑minute B2B onboarding and optional Facebook hosting; Spark AR reports 600,000 creators and 2 million effects and launches a multi‑peer beta; PyTorch becomes Facebook’s standard (93% of training, 1,700 inference models) and claims faster training. Case results include Samsung −25% support cost/ +54 NPS, L’Oréal +30% qualified leads, and Bodhi handling 3.3M conversations.

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1. 0:00Welcome to F8 2021
2. 3:52F8 developer vision
3. 7:04Platform improvements and safety
4. 8:06Social and business messaging
5. 12:20Facebook invests in messaging
6. 19:26Messenger API innovations
7. 26:00Instagram messaging API
8. 34:06WhatsApp Business API growth
9. 47:00Facebook Login with Messenger
10. 55:34Business Suite tools
11. 1:02:10Spark AR and AR glasses
12. 1:09:37PyTorch AI framework
13. 1:18:49Closing remarks

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