[lbliii]

Summary

• Adds a "What's Hot" section to the top of the README highlighting Slurm deployment, Audio curation, and the Inference Server
• Sits above the existing "Updates" release log so feature highlights and release history serve distinct purposes
• Addresses #1552 (better surfacing of new features on the landing page)

Context

Requested by Arham in #docs Slack thread — developers landing on the README should immediately see the latest capabilities worth trying. The three highlighted features were called out by Arham; cc @nemo-curator-leads if anything else should be added before merge (candidates: Cosmos-Embed1 video embeddings, Nemotron-CC recipe, simplified Resources API).

Test plan

• Preview README rendering on GitHub
• Verify all three doc links resolve
• Confirm leads are aligned on the three highlighted features

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Greptile Summary

This PR adds a new feature-highlight section to the README. The main changes are:

• A new "What's Hot" section above the release updates.
• Three highlighted links for Slurm deployment, Audio Curation, and the Inference Server.
• A short note inviting suggestions for future featured items.

Confidence Score: 5/5

This looks safe to merge.

• No blocking issues found in the changed code.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
README.md	Adds a documentation-only feature-highlight section near the top of the README.

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[sarahyurick]

Hi @lbliii do we still want to merge this or should we close?

[lbliii]

ok to test 760c748

[sarahyurick]

/ok to test 003f1ac