Update readme

[AlpinDale]

Long overdue.

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Summary of Changes

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This pull request focuses on updating the README.md file to provide a more current and comprehensive overview of the Aphrodite inference engine. It removes obsolete information, highlights newly integrated features and expanded quantization support, and refines the quickstart guide and system requirements for improved user experience and clarity.

Highlights

• README Cleanup: Outdated news and caution sections have been removed from the README to streamline information.
• Feature Expansion: New capabilities such as disaggregated inference, speculative decoding, multimodal support, and multi-LoRA support have been added to the features list.
• Quantization Updates: The list of supported quantization methods has been significantly expanded with new entries and detailed links for AQLM, AutoRound, BitNet, EETQ, NVIDIA ModelOpt, TorchAO, VPTQ, compressed_tensors, and MXFP4.
• Quickstart Example Refinement: The example model in the quickstart command has been updated from 'meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct' to 'Qwen/Qwen3-0.6B', and a note about using 'aphrodite run -h' for full arguments was added.
• Docker and System Requirements: The Docker command syntax was corrected from '--api-keys' to '--api-key', the image download size mention was removed, and the Windows operating system requirement now explicitly specifies WSL2.

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Code Review

This pull request updates the main README file to better reflect the current state of the project. The changes include removing an outdated "News" section, expanding the list of supported features and quantization methods, and updating command-line examples for clarity. My review identified a minor inaccuracy in the updated operating system requirements for Windows, which could be misleading. I've provided a suggestion to clarify this. Overall, these changes are a valuable improvement to the project's documentation.