deprecate alpha release notif (prepping merge to main)

Author: Titus-von-Koeller

README.md

@@ -6,26 +6,12 @@ The `bitsandbytes` library is a lightweight Python wrapper around CUDA custom fu
 
 The library includes quantization primitives for 8-bit & 4-bit operations, through `bitsandbytes.nn.Linear8bitLt` and `bitsandbytes.nn.Linear4bit` and 8-bit optimizers through `bitsandbytes.optim` module.
 
-There are ongoing efforts to support further hardware backends, i.e. Intel CPU + GPU, AMD GPU, Apple Silicon. Windows support is quite far along and is on its way as well.
+There are ongoing efforts to support further hardware backends, i.e. Intel CPU + GPU, AMD GPU, Apple Silicon, hopefully NPU.
 
 **Please head to the official documentation page:**
 
 **[https://huggingface.co/docs/bitsandbytes/main](https://huggingface.co/docs/bitsandbytes/main)**
 
-## `bitsandbytes` multi-backend _alpha_ release is out!
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-🚀 Big news! After months of hard work and incredible community contributions, we're thrilled to announce the **bitsandbytes multi-backend _alpha_ release**! 💥
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-Now supporting:
-- 🔥 **AMD GPUs** (ROCm)
-- ⚡ **Intel CPUs** & **GPUs**
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-We’d love your early feedback! 🙏
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-👉 [Instructions for your `pip install` here](https://huggingface.co/docs/bitsandbytes/main/en/installation#multi-backend)
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-We're super excited about these recent developments and grateful for any constructive input or support that you can give to help us make this a reality (e.g. helping us with the upcoming Apple Silicon backend or reporting bugs). BNB is a community project and we're excited for your collaboration 🤗
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 ## License
 
 `bitsandbytes` is MIT licensed.